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Black Holes and (0,4) SCFTs from Type IIB on K3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-05 v2

Abstract

We study the central charges and levels of 2d N=(0,4)\mathcal{N}=(0,4) superconformal field theories that are dual to four- and five-dimensional BPS black holes in compactifications of type IIB string theory on a K3 surface. They arise from wrapping a D3-brane on a curve CC inside K3 and have transverse space either an ALE or ALF space. These D3-branes have an AdS3×S3/Γ_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3/ \Gamma near horizon geometry where Γ\Gamma is a discrete subgroup of SU(2)SU(2). We compute the central charges and levels of the 2d SCFTs both in the microscopic picture and from six-dimensional N=(2,0)\mathcal{N}=(2,0) supergravity. These quantities determine the black hole entropy via Cardy's formula. We find agreement between the microscopic and macroscopic computations. The contributions from one-loop quantum corrections to the macroscopic result are crucial for this matching.

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@article{arxiv.1904.05361,
  title  = {Black Holes and (0,4) SCFTs from Type IIB on K3},
  author = {Christopher Couzens and Huibert het Lam and Kilian Mayer and Stefan Vandoren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.05361},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

36 pages; v2: published version, footnotes added, minor typos corrected