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Counting D1-D5-P Microstates in Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-01-27 v2

Abstract

We quantize the D1-D5-P microstate geometries known as superstrata directly in supergravity. We use Rychkov's consistency condition [hep-th/0512053] which was derived for the D1-D5 system; for superstrata, this condition turns out to be strong enough to fix the symplectic form uniquely. For the (1,0,n)(1,0,n) superstrata, we further confirm this quantization by a bona-fide explicit computation of the symplectic form using the semi-classical covariant quantization method in supergravity. We use the resulting quantizations to count the known supergravity superstrata states, finding agreement with previous countings that the number of these states grows parametrically smaller than those of the corresponding black hole.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2010.04172,
  title  = {Counting D1-D5-P Microstates in Supergravity},
  author = {Daniel R. Mayerson and Masaki Shigemori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04172},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

18 pages + appendices; v2: minor edit and reference added

R2 v1 2026-06-23T19:11:05.995Z