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Positivity of discrete information for CHL black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-02-05 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Black holes carry more information about the microstates than just the total degeneracy. As a concrete example, the Z(N)-twined helicity trace indices for 1/4-BPS black holes of the CHL models allow extracting information about the distribution of the Z(N) charges among the black hole microstates. The number of black hole microstates carrying a definite eigenvalue under the generator of the Z(N) twining group must be positive. This leads to a specific prediction for the signs of certain linear combinations of Fourier coefficients of Siegel modular forms. We explicitly test these predictions for low charges. In the D1-D5-P duality frame, we compute the appropriate hair removed partition functions and show the positivity of the appropriate Fourier coefficients for low charges. We present various consistency checks on our computations.

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@article{arxiv.2205.08726,
  title  = {Positivity of discrete information for CHL black holes},
  author = {Suresh Govindarajan and Sutapa Samanta and P Shanmugapriya and Amitabh Virmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.08726},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

36 pages, many tables; v2: clarifications added, version to appear in Nuclear Physics B; v3: two typos corrected, one in the sentence after eq. (4.27) and one in the sentence after eq. (5.4), no other changes