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Static M-horizons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

We determine the geometry of all static black hole horizons of M-theory preserving at least one supersymmetry. We demonstrate that all such horizons are either warped products R^{1,1} *_w S or AdS_2 *_w S, where S admits an appropriate Spin(7) or SU(4) structure respectively; and we derive the conditions imposed by supersymmetry on these structures. We show that for electric static horizons with Spin(7) structure, the near horizon geometry is a product R^{1,1} * S, where S is a compact Spin(7) holonomy manifold. For electric static solutions with SU(4) structure, we show that the horizon section S is a circle fibration over an 8-dimensional Kahler manifold which satisfies an additional condition involving the Ricci scalar and the length of the Ricci tensor. Solutions include AdS_2 * S^3 * CY_6 as well as many others constructed from taking the 8-dimensional Kahler manifold to be a product of Kahler-Einstein and Calabi-Yau spaces.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3085,
  title  = {Static M-horizons},
  author = {J. Gutowski and G. Papadopoulos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3085},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, latex. Section 5 has been added, containing additional details of the analysis of static solutions; typos corrected and references added

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