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Equivariant localization in supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-12-16 v2

Abstract

We show that supersymmetric supergravity solutions with an R-symmetry Killing vector are equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. Various physical observables may be expressed as integrals of these forms, and then evaluated using the Berline-Vergne-Atiyah-Bott fixed point theorem. We illustrate with a variety of holographic examples, including on-shell actions, black hole entropies, central charges, and scaling dimensions of operators. The resulting expressions depend only on topological data and the R-symmetry vector, and hence may be evaluated without solving the supergravity equations.

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@article{arxiv.2306.03868,
  title  = {Equivariant localization in supergravity},
  author = {Pietro Benetti Genolini and Jerome P. Gauntlett and James Sparks},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.03868},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

6 pages; very minor changes, published version

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