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Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry

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Aspinwall, PS; Maloney, A; Simons, A
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics
July 1, 2007

We consider the superconformal quantum mechanics associated to BPS black holes in type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications. This quantum mechanics describes the dynamics of D-branes in the near-horizon attractor geometry of the black hole. In many cases, the black hole entropy can be found by counting the number of chiral primaries in this quantum mechanics. Both the attractor mechanism and notions of marginal stability play important roles in generating the large number of microstates required to explain this entropy. We compute the microscopic entropy explicitly in a few different cases, where the theory reduces to quantum mechanics on the moduli space of special Lagrangians. Under certain assumptions, the problem may be solved by implementing mirror symmetry as three T-dualities: this is essentially the mirror of a calculation by Gaiotto, Strominger and Yin. In some simple cases, the calculation may be done in greater generality without resorting to conjectures about mirror symmetry. For example, the K3 × T2 case may be studied precisely using the Fourier-Mukai transform. © SISSA 2007.

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Journal of High Energy Physics

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EISSN

1029-8479

ISSN

1126-6708

Publication Date

July 1, 2007

Volume

2007

Issue

7

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics
 

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Aspinwall, P. S., Maloney, A., & Simons, A. (2007). Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007(7). https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/034
Aspinwall, P. S., A. Maloney, and A. Simons. “Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2007, no. 7 (July 1, 2007). https://doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/034.
Aspinwall PS, Maloney A, Simons A. Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007 Jul 1;2007(7).
Aspinwall, P. S., et al. “Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry.” Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2007, no. 7, July 2007. Scopus, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/07/034.
Aspinwall PS, Maloney A, Simons A. Black hole entropy, marginal stability and mirror symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007 Jul 1;2007(7).
Journal cover image

Published In

Journal of High Energy Physics

DOI

EISSN

1029-8479

ISSN

1126-6708

Publication Date

July 1, 2007

Volume

2007

Issue

7

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5106 Nuclear and plasma physics
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0105 Mathematical Physics