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Classical and quantum N=2 supersymmetric black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We use heterotic/type-II prepotentials to study quantum/classical black holes with half the N=2,D=4N=2, D=4 supersymmetries unbroken. We show that, in the case of heterotic string compactifications, the perturbatively corrected entropy formula is given by the tree-level entropy formula with the tree-level coupling constant replaced by the perturbative coupling constant. In the case of type-II compactifications, we display a new entropy/area formula associated with axion-free black-hole solutions, which depends on the electric and magnetic charges as well as on certain topological data of Calabi--Yau three-folds, namely the intersection numbers, the second Chern class and the Euler number of the three-fold. We show that, for both heterotic and type-II theories, there is the possibility to relax the usual requirement of the non-vanishing of some of the charges and still have a finite entropy.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610105,
  title  = {Classical and quantum N=2 supersymmetric black holes},
  author = {K. Behrndt and G. Lopes Cardoso and B. de Wit and R. Kallosh and D. Lüst and T. Mohaupt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610105},
  year   = {2008}
}

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28 pages, LaTeX