Black Holes and (0,4) SCFTs from Type IIB on K3
Abstract
We study the central charges and levels of 2d 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 inside K3 and have transverse space either an ALE or ALF space. These D3-branes have an AdS near horizon geometry where is a discrete subgroup of . We compute the central charges and levels of the 2d SCFTs both in the microscopic picture and from six-dimensional 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}
}
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36 pages; v2: published version, footnotes added, minor typos corrected