This is one of a pair of papers that give a historical-cum-philosophical analysis of the endeavour to understand black hole entropy as a statistical mechanical entropy obtained by counting string-theoretic microstates. Both papers focus on Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa's ground-breaking 1996 calculation, which analysed the black hole in terms of D-branes. The first paper gives a conceptual analysis of the Strominger-Vafa argument, and of several research efforts that it engendered. In this paper, we assess whether the black hole should be considered as emergent from the D-brane system, particularly in light of the role that duality plays in the argument. We further identify uses of the quantum-to-classical correspondence principle in string theory discussions of black holes, and compare these to the heuristics of earlier efforts in theory construction, in particular those of the old quantum theory.

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弦论黑洞的出现与对应

这是对将黑洞熵理解为通过统计弦理论微状态而获得的统计机械熵的研究进行历史和哲学分析的两篇论文之一。这两篇论文都侧重于安德鲁·斯特罗明格（Andrew Strominger）和库姆伦·瓦法（Cumrun Vafa）1996年的突破性计算，该计算以D形角度分析了黑洞。第一篇论文对Strominger-Vafa论证及其引起的一些研究工作进行了概念分析。在本文中，我们评估是否应该将黑洞视为从D膜系统中出现的现象，尤其是考虑到二元性在争论中所扮演的角色。我们进一步确定了量子到经典对应原理在黑洞的弦论讨论中的用途，