Remarks on thermal strings outside black hole》.pdf

10November 1994 PHYSICS LETTERS B ELSEVIER PhysicsLettersB 339 (1994) 41-48 Remarks on thermal strings outside black holes J.L.E Barb6n 1 Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University,Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Received 11 July 1994 Editor: M. Dine Abstract We discuss the semiclassical approximation to the level density of (super) strings propagating in non-compact coset manifolds G/H. We show that the WKB ansatz agrees with heuristic red-shift arguments with respect to the "exact" sigma- model metric, up to some deviations from minimal coupling, parametrized by the dilaton. This approximation is used to study thermal ensembles of free strings in black holes, with the "brick wall" horizon regularization of 't Hooft. In two dimensions the entropy diverges logarithmically with the horizon thickness, and a local Hagedom transition occurs in higher dimensional models. We also observe that supersymmetry improves the regularity of strings at the horizon. 1. Introduction A ~ -2) ( T ,~a-1 (1.1) Some interesting proposals have been put forward recently about the role of String Theory in the under- where AH is the horizon area, • is a short proper- standing of black hole thermodynamics and the infor- distance cutoff, and TH is the Hawking tempera