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On the Stability of Non-Supersymmetric Quantum Attractors in String Theory
We study four dimensional non-supersymmetric attractors in type IIA string
theory in the presence of sub-leading corrections to the prepotential. For a
given Calabi-Yau manifold, the D0-D4 system admits an attractor point in the
moduli space which is uniquely specified by the black hole charges. The
perturbative corrections to the prepotential do not change the number of
massless directions in the black hole effective potential. We further study
non-supersymmetric D0-D6 black holes in the presence of sub-leading
corrections. In this case the space of attractor points define a hypersurface
in the moduli space.Comment: References Added, Typos Corrected, Appendix A.2 Reordere
N=2 Conformal Superspace in Four Dimensions
We develop the geometry of four dimensional N=2 superspace where the entire
conformal algebra of SU(2,2|2) is realized linearly in the structure group
rather than just the SL(2,C) x U(2)_R subgroup of Lorentz and R-symmetries,
extending to N=2 our prior result for N=1 superspace. This formulation
explicitly lifts to superspace the existing methods of the N=2 superconformal
tensor calculus; at the same time the geometry, when degauged to SL(2,C) x
U(2)_R, reproduces the existing formulation of N=2 conformal supergravity
constructed by Howe.Comment: 43 pages; v2 references added, acknowledgments update
Electric and magnetic charges in N=2 conformal supergravity theories
General Lagrangians are constructed for N=2 conformal supergravity theories
in four space-time dimensions involving gauge groups with abelian and/or
non-abelian electric and magnetic charges. The charges are encoded in the gauge
group embedding tensor. The scalar potential induced by the gauge interactions
is quadratic in this tensor, and, when the embedding tensor is treated as a
spurionic quantity, it is formally covariant with respect to electric/magnetic
duality. This work establishes a general framework for studying any deformation
induced by gauge interactions of matter-coupled N=2 supergravity theories. As
an application, full and residual supersymmetry realizations in maximally
symmetric space-times are reviewed. Furthermore, a general classification is
presented of supersymmetric solutions in
space-times. As it turns out, these solutions allow either eight or four
supersymmetries. With four supersymmetries, the spinorial parameters are
Killing spinors of that are constant on , so that they
carry no spin, while the bosonic background is rotationally invariant.Comment: 49 pages, typos correcte