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6D attractors and black hole microstates

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-12-18 v2

Abstract

We find a family of AdS2×M4_2\times \mathcal{M}_4 supersymmetric solutions of the six-dimensional F(4)\mathrm{F}(4) gauged supergravity coupled to one vector multiplet that arises as a low energy description of massive type IIA supergravity on (warped) AdS6×S4_6\times S^4. M4\mathcal{M}_4 is either a K\"ahler-Einstein manifold or a product of two Riemann surfaces with a constant curvature metric. These solutions correspond to the near-horizon region of a family of static magnetically charged black holes. In the case where M4\mathcal{M}_4 is a product of Riemann surfaces, we successfully compare their entropy to a microscopic counting based on the recently computed topologically twisted index of the five-dimensional N=1\mathcal{N}=1 USp(2N)\mathrm{USp}(2 N) theory with NfN_f fundamental flavors and an antisymmetric matter field. Furthermore, our results suggest that the near-horizon regions exhibit an attractor mechanism for the scalars in the matter coupled F(4)\mathrm{F}(4) gauged supergravity, and we give a proposal for it.

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@article{arxiv.1809.10685,
  title  = {6D attractors and black hole microstates},
  author = {Seyed Morteza Hosseini and Kiril Hristov and Achilleas Passias and Alberto Zaffaroni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10685},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

19 pages, v2: minor corrections

R2 v1 2026-06-23T04:20:56.460Z