Functional determinants, index theorems, and exact quantum black hole entropy
Abstract
The exact quantum entropy of BPS black holes can be evaluated using localization in supergravity. An important ingredient in this program, that has been lacking so far, is the one-loop effect arising from the quadratic fluctuations of the exact deformation (the operator). We compute the fluctuation determinant for vector multiplets and hyper multiplets around -invariant off-shell configurations in four-dimensional supergravity with boundary conditions, using the Atiyah-Bott fixed-point index theorem and a subsequent zeta function regularization. Our results extend the large-charge on-shell entropy computations in the literature to a regime of finite charges. Based on our results, we present an exact formula for the quantum entropy of BPS black holes in supergravity. We explain cancellations concerning -BPS black holes in supergravity that were observed in arXiv:1111.1161. We also make comments about the interpretation of a logarithmic term in the topological string partition function in the low energy supergravity theory.
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@article{arxiv.1504.01400,
title = {Functional determinants, index theorems, and exact quantum black hole entropy},
author = {Sameer Murthy and Valentin Reys},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01400},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
47 pages; v3 accepted for publication in JHEP