Black Holes and (0,4) SCFTs from Type IIB on K3

Christopher Couzens, Huibert het Lam, Kilian Mayer, Stefan Vandoren

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Abstract

We study the central charges and levels of 2d $\mathcal{N}=(0,4)$ superconformal field theories that are dual to four- and five-dimensional BPS black holes in compactifications of type IIB string theory on a K3 surface. They arise from wrapping a D3-brane on a curve $C$ inside K3 and have transverse space either an ALE or ALF space. These D3-branes have an AdS$_3 \times \mathrm{S}^3/ \Gamma$ near horizon geometry where $\Gamma$ is a discrete subgroup of $SU(2)$. We compute the central charges and levels of the 2d SCFTs both in the microscopic picture and from six-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supergravity. These quantities determine the black hole entropy via Cardy's formula. We find agreement between the microscopic and macroscopic computations. The contributions from one-loop quantum corrections to the macroscopic result are crucial for this matching.
Original languageUndefined/Unknown
Article number43
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Aug 2019

Bibliographical note

36 pages; v2: published version, footnotes added, minor typos corrected

Keywords

  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • Conformal Field Models in String Theory
  • Supergravity Models

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