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String Theory Effects on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We review recent developments in understanding quantum/string corrections to BPS black holes and strings in five-dimensional supergravity. These objects are solutions to the effective action obtained from M-theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold, including the one-loop corrections determined by anomaly cancellation and supersymmetry. We introduce the off-shell formulation of this theory obtained through the conformal supergravity method and review the methods for investigating supersymmetric solutions. This leads to quantum/string corrected attractor geometries, as well as asymptotically flat black strings and spinning black holes. With these solutions in hand, we compare our results with analogous studies in four-dimensional string-corrected supergravity, emphasizing the distinctions between the four and five dimensional theories.

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@article{arxiv.0801.1863,
  title  = {String Theory Effects on Five-Dimensional Black Hole Physics},
  author = {Alejandra Castro and Joshua L. Davis and Per Kraus and Finn Larsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.1863},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

85 pages; uses ws-ijmpa-mod.cls article class; Invited review for IJMPA

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