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AdS$_7$ Black Holes and Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-10 v2

Abstract

We present a detailed study of the regularized on-shell action of the recently found asymptotically AdS7_7 black hole supergravity solution with three angular momenta and two electric charges. We show that a particular choice of finite counterterms in the holographic renormalization procedure yields a result for the on-shell action of the supersymmetric limit of the black hole solution which is in perfect agreement with the large NN limit of the superconformal index of the dual 6d N=(2,0)\mathcal{N}=(2,0) ANA_{N} SCFT on S1×S5S^1\times S^5. We also discuss a generalization of this 7d supergravity background to a new general family of black holes with horizons given by the Lp,q,rL^{p,q,r} 5d Sasaki-Einstein manifolds. The regularized on-shell action of these new 7d black holes is also in agreement with supersymmetric localization results for the 6d N=(2,0)\mathcal{N}=(2,0) SCFT on S1×Lp,q,rS^1\times L^{p,q,r}. Finally, we briefly discuss a generalization of known AdS5_5 gauged supergravity backgrounds to new 5d black holes with L(p,q)L(p,q) lens space horizon topologies.

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@article{arxiv.2509.02833,
  title  = {AdS$_7$ Black Holes and Holography},
  author = {Nikolay Bobev and Marina David and Vasil Dimitrov and Junho Hong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.02833},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

v1: 38 pages; v2: minor revisions, references added