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Ashoke Sen

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Selected writings

On microscopic explanation of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy via geometric engineering of black holes in string theory as bound states of D-branes:

• Ashoke Sen, Extremal black holes and elementary string states, Mod. Phys. Lett. A10: 2081-2094, 1995 (arXiv:hep-th/9504147)

• Ashoke Sen, Black Hole Entropy Function, Attractors and Precision Counting of Microstates, Gen. Rel. Grav. 40: 2249-2431, 2008 (arXiv:0708.1270)

Introducing Sen's conjecture on open string tachyon condensation and the decay of D-brane/anti-D-brane pairs in superstring theory via open superstring tachyon condensation:

• Ashoke Sen, Tachyon Condensation on the Brane Antibrane System, JHEP 9808:012,1998 (arXiv:hep-th/9805170)

• Ashoke Sen, Universality of the Tachyon Potential, JHEP 9912:027, 1999 (arXiv:hep-th/9911116)

with review in:

• Ashoke Sen, Tachyon Dynamics in Open String Theory, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A20:5513-5656, 2005 (arXiv:hep-th/0410103)

Discussion of gravitational waves in relation to the soft graviton theorem:

• Arnab Priya Saha, Biswajit Sahoo, Ashoke Sen, Proof of the Classical Soft Graviton Theorem in $D=4$ (arXiv:1912.06413)

Related $n$Lab entries

• Sen's conjecture

• electric-magnetic duality/S-duality

• M-theory lift of gauge enhancement on D6-branes

• BFSS matrix model

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