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Rotating Black Hole Entropy from M5-branes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-03-30 v3

Abstract

We compute the superconformal index of 3d N=2\mathcal{N}=2 superconformal theories obtained from NN M5-branes wrapped on a hyperbolic 3-manifold. Exploiting the 3d-3d correspondence, we use perturbative invariants of SL(N,C)SL(N,\mathbb{C}) Chern-Simons theory to determine the superconformal index in the large NN limit, including corrections logarithmic in NN. The leading order partition function provides a microscopic foundation for the entropy function of the dual rotating asymptotically AdS4_4 black holes. We also verify that the supergravity one-loop contribution to the logN\log N term coincides with the field theoretic result. We propose a 3d-3d formulation for the refined topologically twisted index, and provide strong evidence in support of its vanishing --- which agrees with the fact that the expected dual rotating magnetically-charged black hole does not exist. This provides an interesting link between gravity and a tantalizing mathematical result.

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@article{arxiv.1909.11612,
  title  = {Rotating Black Hole Entropy from M5-branes},
  author = {Francesco Benini and Dongmin Gang and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.11612},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

36 pages; v2: improved version with many clarifications; v3: published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:25:44.147Z