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Microstate geometries at a generic point in moduli space

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-09-25 v2

Abstract

We systematically study all supersymmetric solutions of six-dimensional (2,0) supergravity with a null isometry. In particular, every such solution with at least four real supersymmetries is also a supersymmetric solution of a (1,0) theory preserving the same absolute amount of supersymmetry. This implies that no genuinely new solutions of this type can be found in this framework. The microstate geometries associated to supersymmetric black holes within Mathur's proposal are generically supersymmetric solutions of six-dimensional supergravity. A direct consequence of our result is that supersymmetric microstate geometries of single centre supersymmetric black holes should carry only one compact 3-cycle.

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@article{arxiv.1905.12012,
  title  = {Microstate geometries at a generic point in moduli space},
  author = {Guillaume Bossard and Severin Lüst},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1905.12012},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

40 pages; v2: minor corrections, version published in General Relativity and Gravitation

R2 v1 2026-06-23T09:29:52.041Z