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Fabian Fischbach, Albrecht Klemm, Christoph Nega
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Pablo A. Cano, Angel Murcia, Pedro F. Ramirez, Alejandro Ruiperez
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Pablo A. Cano, Tomas Ortin, Alejandro Ruiperez, Matteo Zatti
Summary: In this paper, we compute the first-order corrections of the non-extremal Strominger-Vafa black hole and its non-supersymmetric counterparts using the Bergshoeff-de Roo formulation of the heterotic superstring effective action. We find a set of solutions that are related through T duality transformations and calculate their thermodynamic quantities.
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Matteo Zatti
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Seung-Joo Lee, Wolfgang Lerche, Guglielmo Lockhart, Timo Weigand
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(2021)
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Sergei Alexandrov, Suresh Nampuri
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Hiroshi Kunitomo
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(2021)
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Max Wiesner
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Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Suresh Nampuri, Marti Rossello
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
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Bobby Samir Acharya, Alex Kinsella, David R. Morrison
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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(2022)
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Wenzhe Yang
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2021)
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Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Quim Llorens, Javier Moreno, Guido van der Velde
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Pablo A. Cano, Tomas Ortin, Alejandro Ruiperez, Matteo Zatti
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(2022)
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Pablo A. Cano, David Pereniguez
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Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Angel Murcia, Alberto Rivadulla Sanchez
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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
(2022)
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Pablo A. Cano, Angel J. Murcia, Alberto Rivadulla Sanchez, Xuao Zhang
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(2022)
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Pablo Bueno, Pablo A. Cano, Robie A. Hennigar, Mengqi Lu, Javier Moreno
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Tomas Ortin, David Pereniguez
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Patrick Meessen, Dimitrios Mitsios, Tomas Ortin
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
(2022)
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Physics, Particles & Fields
Pablo A. Cano, Tomas Ortin, Alejandro Ruiperez, Matteo Zatti
Summary: In this paper, we compute the first-order corrections of the non-extremal Strominger-Vafa black hole and its non-supersymmetric counterparts using the Bergshoeff-de Roo formulation of the heterotic superstring effective action. We find a set of solutions that are related through T duality transformations and calculate their thermodynamic quantities.
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
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Romina Ballesteros, Carmen Gomez-Fayren, Tomas Ortin, Matteo Zatti
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(2023)
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Carmen Gomez-Fayren, Patrick Meessen, Tomas Ortin, Matteo Zatti
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(2023)
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Tomas Ortin, Alejandro Ruiperez, Matteo Zatti
Summary: We compute the first-order alpha ' corrections to well-known families of heterotic multicenter black-hole solutions in five and four dimensions. The equilibrium of forces persists after including the alpha ' corrections, as evidenced by the existence of multi-center solutions free of unphysical singularities. We also analyze the possibility of black-hole fragmentation.
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Pablo A. Cano, Alejandro Ruiperez
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Pablo A. Cano, Kwinten Fransen, Thomas Hertog, Simon Maenaut
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