46 research outputs found
Superconformal Black Hole Quantum Mechanics
In recent work, the superconformal quantum mechanics describing D0 branes in
the AdS_2xS^2xCY_3 attractor geometry of a Calabi-Yau black hole with D4 brane
charges p^A has been constructed and found to contain a large degeneracy of
chiral primary bound states. In this paper it is shown that the asymptotic
growth of chiral primaries for N D0 branes exactly matches the
Bekenstein-Hawking area law for a black hole with D4 brane charge p^A and D0
brane charge N. This large degeneracy arises from D0 branes in lowest Landau
levels which tile the CY_3xS^2 horizon. It is conjectured that such a multi-D0
brane CFT1 is holographically dual to IIA string theory on AdS_2xS^2xCY_3.Comment: 8 page
Superconformal Quantum Mechanics of Small Black Holes
Recently, Gaiotto, Strominger and Yin have proposed a holographic dual
description for the near-horizon physics of certain N=2 black holes in terms of
the superconformal quantum mechanics on D0-branes in the attractor geometry. We
provide further evidence for their proposal by applying it to the case of
`small' black holes which have vanishing horizon area in the leading
supergravity approximation. We consider 2-charge black holes in type IIA on
, where can be either or , made up out of
D0-branes and D4-branes wrapping . We construct the corresponding
superconformal quantum mechanics and show that the asymptotic growth of chiral
primaries exactly matches with the known entropy of these black holes. The
state-counting problem reduces to counting lowest Landau levels on and
Dolbeault cohomology classes on .Comment: Latex, 16 pages; v2: minor corrections, references added, published
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AdS Taub-Nut Space and the O(N) Vector Model on a Squashed 3-Sphere
In this note, motivated by the Klebanov-Polyakov conjecture we investigate
the strongly coupled O(N) vector model at large on a squashed three-sphere
and its holographic relation to bulk gravity on asymptotically locally
spaces. We present analytical results for the action of the field theory as the
squashing parameter , when the boundary becomes effectively one
dimensional. The dual bulk geometry is AdS-Taub-NUT space in the corresponding
limit. In this limit we solve the theory exactly and show that the action of
the strongly coupled boundary theory scales as .
This result is remarkably close to the scaling of the
Einstein gravity action for AdS-Taub-NUT space. These results explain the
numerical agreement presented in hep-th/0503238, and the soft logarithmic
departure is interpreted as a prediction for the contribution due to higher
spin fields in the bulk geometry.Comment: 11 pages, 3 figures. References adde
Basic Twist Quantization of osp(1|2) and kappa-- Deformation of D=1 Superconformal Mechanics
The twisting function describing a nonstandard (super-Jordanian) quantum
deformation of is given in explicite closed form. The quantum
coproducts and universal R-matrix are presented. The non-uniqueness of the
twisting function as well as two real forms of the deformed
superalgebras are considered. One real quantum superalgebra is
interpreted as describing the -deformation of D=1, N=1 superconformal
algebra, which can be applied as a symmetry algebra of N=1 superconformal
mechanics.Comment: 13 pages,LaTeX, v2. References added, typos correcte
N=4 superconformal mechanics as a Non linear Realization
An action for a superconformal particle is constructed using the non linear
realization method for the group PSU(1,1|2), without introducing superfields.
The connection between PSU(1,1|2) and black hole physics is discussed. The
lagrangian contains six arbitrary constants and describes a non-BPS
superconformal particle. The BPS case is obtained if a precise relation between
the constants in the lagrangian is verified, which implies that the action
becomes kappa-symmetric.Comment: new subection, references added and new acknowledgment
Black Holes in Supergravity and String Theory
We give an elementary introduction to black holes in supergravity and string
theory. The focus is on BPS solutions in four- and higher-dimensional
supergravity and string theory. Basic ideas and techniques are explained in
detail, including exercises with solutions.Comment: 64 pages, based on lectures given at the school of the TMR network
'Quantum aspects of gauge theories, supersymmetry and unification' in Torino,
January 26 - February 2, 2000. To be published in Class. Quant. Grav. (Some
typos corrected, two references added.