Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-144).
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1. PREFACE; 2. MOTIVATIONS FOR BLACK HOLE PARTITION FUNCTIONS; 3. BLACK HOLES IN M-THEORY; 4. VECTOR-VALUED MODULAR FORMS; 5. INTERPRETATIONS AND APPLICATIONS; 6. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SUMMARY; SAMENVATTING; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
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DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
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Academisch proefschrift--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2008.
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This dissertation presents recent discoveries on partition functions for four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes. These partition functions are important tools to explain the entropy of black holes from a microscopic point of view within string theory and M-theory. The results are applied to two central research topics in modern theoretical physics, namely (1) the correspondence between the physics (including gravity) within an Anti-de Sitter space and conformal field theory, and (2) the relation between black holes and topological strings.
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Partition functions for supersymmetric black holes.