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Classical black hole solutions in supergravity theories that preserve a certain number of supersymmetries saturate the gravitational version of the BPS-bound. Such solutions can be identified with massive solitonic string states [1] for an investigation of the conjectured non-perturbative duality symmetries of string theory, and they can be used to study the microscopic origin of black hole entropy [2]. In section 2 and 3, I will review aspects of BPS-solitons for the type II string compactified on T 6.
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Schröder, G. (1999). String Solitons and Dimensional Reduction. In: Baulieu, L., Di Francesco, P., Douglas, M., Kazakov, V., Picco, M., Windey, P. (eds) Strings, Branes and Dualities. NATO ASI Series, vol 520. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4730-9_26
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