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Black holes as effective geometries

Black holes as effective geometries

Gravitational entropy arises in string theory via coarse graining over an underlying space of microstates. In cases with enough supersymmetry, it has been possible to explicitly construct such microstates in spacetime and understand how coarse graining of non-singular, horizon-free objects can lead to an effective description as an extremal black …