Black rings, geometric transitions and typical black hole microstates

by Bena, Iosif (CEA Saclay)

Tuesday 17 Apr 2007, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

I will describe the construction of BPS solutions that describe black rings as well as 'black hole microstates' - smooth horizonless solutions that have the same charges and the same angular momenta as the three- charge 5D BPS black hole. I will then use properties of these solutions to argue that all the states of the dual CFT should be dual to horizonless configurations, and therefore the black hole solution should be thought of as a thermodynamic description of an ensemble of such configurations, that stops giving a valid description of the physics at the scale of the horizon.