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N=8 non-BPS Attractors, Fixed Scalars and Magic Supergravities

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We analyze the Hessian matrix of the black hole potential of N=8, d=4 supergravity, and determine its rank at non-BPS critical points, relating the resulting spectrum to non-BPS solutions (with non-vanishing central charge) of N=2, d=4 magic supergravities and their ``mirror'' duals. We find agreement with the known degeneracy splitting of N=2 non-BPS spectrum of generic special Kahler geometries with cubic holomorphic prepotential. We also relate non-BPS critical points with vanishing central charge in N=2 magic supergravities to a particular reduction of the N=8, 1/8-BPS critical points.

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@article{arxiv.0705.3866,
  title  = {N=8 non-BPS Attractors, Fixed Scalars and Magic Supergravities},
  author = {S. Ferrara and A. Marrani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3866},
  year   = {2008}
}
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