Extremal Black Holes in Supergravity and the Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy

Abstract: We review some results on the connection among supergravity central charges, BPS states and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. In particular, N = 2 super-gravity in four dimensions is studied in detail. For higher N supergravities we just give an account of the general theory specializing the dis...

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Main Authors: R. D'Auria, L. Andrianopoli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2002-03-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/4/3/65/