Microstates and statistical entropy of observed black holes

Abstract

We propose an ideal building of microscopic configurations for observed black holes from the compactification of Einstein gravity plus a positive cosmological constant in five dimensions on a circle and then compute their statistical entropy. To compute the statistical entropy in this work is applied to general black holes independent of the symmetries of the black hole solution such as the spherical symmetry and going beyond the class of special black holes that are supersymmetric and (near-)extremal as well as have exotic charges. The statistical entropy of black holes includes the Bekenstein-Hawking area term at leading order and sub-leading exponential corrections. We find a new exponential correction which is more meaningful than that found previously in the literature.Comment: 6 page