Juan Maldacena (IAS) “On the black hole/string transition”
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We discuss aspects of the possible transitionbetween small black holes and highly excited fundamental strings. We focus onthe connection between black holes and the self gravitating string solution ofHorowitz and Polchinski. This solution is interesting because it has non-zeroentropy at the classical level and it is natural to suspect that it might becontinuously connected to the black hole. Surprisingly, we … Read More