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Strings, Higher Curvature Corrections, and Black Holes

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We review old and recent results on subleading contributions to black hole entropy in string theory.

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Mohaupt, T. (2006). Strings, Higher Curvature Corrections, and Black Holes. In: Fauser, B., Tolksdorf, J., Zeidler, E. (eds) Quantum Gravity. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7978-0_12

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