IAS Physics Group Meeting
Topic: Possible Transition Between String Scale Black Holes and Self-gravitating Fundamental Strings
Speaker: Juan Maldacena
Affiliation: Faculty, School of Natural Sciences, IAS
Date: September 22, 2021
We discuss the possible transition between string scale black holes and self gravitating fundamental strings. We find evidence for a smooth transition in the heterotic string case while in the type II case they cannot be connected as classical solutions. We also describe the implications of this for black holes that have momentum and fundamental string winding charges.
Based on https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08563 by Y. Chen, JM and E. Witten.