Modave Lectures on Fuzzballs and Emission from the D1-D5 System

Understand

These lecture notes present an introduction to the fuzzball proposal and emission from the D1-D5 system which is geared to an audience of graduate students and others with little background in the subject.

• The presentation begins with a discussion of the Penrose process and Hawking radiation.
• The fuzzball proposal is then introduced, and the two- and three-charge systems are reviewed.
• In the three-charge case details are not discussed.