Short-distance space-time structure and black holes in string theory: a short review of the present status
Abstract
We briefly review the present status of string theory from the viewpoint of its implications on the short-distance space-time structure and black hole physics. Special emphases are given on two closely related issues in recent developments towards nonperturbative string theory, namely, the role of the space-time uncertainty relation as a qualitative but universal characterization of the short-distance structure of string theory and the microscopic formulation of black-hole entropies. We will also suggest that the space-time uncertainty relation can be an underlying principle for the holographic property of M theory, by showing that the space-time uncertainty relation naturally explains the UV/IR relation used in a recent derivation of the holographic bound for D3 brane by Susskind and Witten.
- Publication:
-
Chaos Solitons and Fractals
- Pub Date:
- February 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0960-0779(98)00198-2
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/9806240
- Bibcode:
- 1999CSF....10..423L
- Keywords:
-
- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 34 pages, no figures, to appear in the special issue of the Journal of Chaos, Solitons and Fractals on "Superstrings, M, F, S...Theory"