D-brane Black Holes: Large-N Limit and the Effective String Description
Abstract
We address the derivation of the effective conformal field theory description of the 5-dimensional black hole, modelled by a collection of D1- and D5- branes, from the corresponding low energy U(Q_1)xU(Q_5) gauge theory. Finite horizon size at weak coupling requires both Q_1 and Q_5 to be large. We derive the result in the moduli space approximation (say for Q_1>Q_5) and appeal to supersymmetry to argue its validity beyond weak coupling. As a result of a combination of quenched Z_{Q_1} Wilson lines and a residual Weyl symmetry, the low-lying excitations of the U(Q_1)xU(Q_5) gauge theory are described by an effective N=4 superconformal field theory with c=6 in 1+1 dimensions, where the space is a circle of radius RQ_1Q_5. We also discuss the appearance of a marginal perturbation of the effective conformal field theory for large but finite values of Q_5.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9703163,
title = {D-brane Black Holes: Large-N Limit and the Effective String Description},
author = {S. F. Hassan and Spenta R. Wadia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9703163},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, LaTeX, some comments added to make the arguments in sections 4 and 5 more precise, to appear in Phys. Lett. B