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Localised $\mathrm{AdS}_3\times \mathrm{S}^3\times \mathbb{T}^4$ Black Holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We numerically construct asymptotically global AdS3×S3×T4\mathrm{AdS}_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4 black holes in type IIB supergravity, with Rt×SO(2)×SO(3)×U(1)4\mathbb{R}_t \times SO(2) \times SO(3) \times U(1)^4 symmetry, localised on the S3\mathrm{S}^3 and translationally invariant along the torus. These solutions, with horizons whose spatial cross sections have S4×T4\mathrm{S}^4 \times \mathbb{T}^4 topology, dominate the microcanonical ensemble at low energies. At higher energies, a first-order phase transition occurs to BTZ×S3×T4\mathrm{BTZ} \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4 black holes - possessing Rt×SO(2)×SO(4)×U(1)4\mathbb{R}_t \times SO(2) \times SO(4) \times U(1)^4 symmetry and S1×S3×T4\mathrm{S}^1 \times \mathrm{S}^3 \times \mathbb{T}^4 horizon topology. By the AdS/CFT correspondence, this transition reflects the spontaneous breaking of the SO(4)SO(4) R-symmetry of the D1-D5 CFT2_2 to SO(3)SO(3). We also compute the expectation value of the scalar operator with lowest conformal dimension in the low-energy phase. Our SO(3)SO(3)-localised black holes - together with the U(1)2U(1)^2-localised solutions of [1] - point to a rich landscape of novel black holes that may approach the CFT2\mathrm{CFT}_2 sparseness bootstrap condition, and shed light on how macroscopic entanglement in thermal phases encodes microscopic structure via internal directions.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.16722,
  title  = {Localised $\mathrm{AdS}_3\times \mathrm{S}^3\times \mathbb{T}^4$ Black Holes},
  author = {Oscar J. C. Dias and Jorge E. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.16722},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

14 pages, 7 figures. v2: Source files contain data used to generate the main figures (see Plots_DiasSantos_arXiv-2508.16722.nb and 4 data files)