title: Tachyon condensation and black hole entropy.
abstract: String propagation on a cone with deficit angle 2pi(1-1 / N) is considered for the purpose of computing the entropy of a large mass black hole. The entropy computed using the recent results on condensation of twisted-sector tachyons in this theory is found to be in precise agreement with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India.
authors.forename: Atish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dabholkar