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High Energy Theory Seminar

Friday, October 15, 2021
11:00am to 12:00pm
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Aspects of the black hole/string transition
Yiming Chen, Princeton University,

Limited capacity in 469 Lauritsen.

For Zoom information, please email [email protected]

It has long been speculated that a black hole in string theory turns into highly excited strings close to the Hagedorn temperature. Gravitational attraction pulls different parts of the string together, forming a star-like configuration. In this talk, I will review the properties of a concrete solution of this kind, first discovered by Horowitz and Polchinski. I will discuss whether the Horowitz-Polchinski solution can be smoothly connected with the black hole as worldsheet CFTs. I will also discuss how the story can be generalized to charged cases, as well as its implication on the near extremal limit.