van Dongen, Jeroen and De Haro, Sebastian and Visser, Manus and Butterfield, Jeremy (2019) Emergence and Correspondence for String Theory Black Holes. [Preprint]

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This is one of a pair of papers that give a historical-cum-philosophical analysis of the endeavour to understand black hole entropy as a statistical mechanical entropy obtained by counting string-theoretic microstates. Both papers focus on Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa's ground-breaking 1996 calculation, which analysed the black hole in terms of D-branes. The first paper gives a conceptual analysis of the Strominger-Vafa argument, and of several research efforts that it engendered. In this paper, we assess whether the black hole should be considered as emergent from the D-brane system, particularly in light of the role that duality plays in the argument. We further identify uses of the quantum-to-classical correspondence principle in string theory discussions of black holes, and compare these to the heuristics of earlier efforts in theory construction, in particular those of the old quantum theory.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID van Dongen, Jeroen j.a.e.f.vandongen@uva.nl De Haro, Sebastian sd696@cam.ac.uk 0000-0002-3000-5967 Visser, Manus M.R.Visser@uva.nl Butterfield, Jeremy jb56@cam.ac.uk
Keywords:	black hole entropy; string theory; D-branes; AdS/CFT; emergence; correspondence
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr Sebastian De Haro
Date Deposited:	06 Apr 2019 00:52
Last Modified:	06 Apr 2019 00:52
Item ID:	15884
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Field Theory Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	5 April 2019
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/15884

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