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Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation

Balasubramanian, Vijay; de Boer, Jan; Keski-Vakkuri, Esko; Ross, Simon F.

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Authors

Vijay Balasubramanian

Jan de Boer

Esko Keski-Vakkuri



Abstract

Conical defects, or point particles, in AdS3 are one of the simplest nontrivial gravitating systems, and are particularly interesting because black holes can form from their collision. We embed the BPS conical defects of three dimensions into the N=4b supergravity in six dimensions, which arises from the IIB string theory compactified on K3. The required Kaluza-Klein reduction of the six dimensional theory on a sphere is analyzed in detail, including the relation to the Chern-Simons supergravities in three dimensions. We show that the six dimensional spaces obtained by embedding the 3D conical defects arise in the near-horizon limit of rotating black strings. Various properties of these solutions are analyzed and we propose a representation of our defects in the CFT dual to asymptotically AdS3×S3 spaces. Our work is intended as a first step towards analyzing colliding defects that form black holes.

Citation

Balasubramanian, V., de Boer, J., Keski-Vakkuri, E., & Ross, S. F. (2001). Supersymmetric conical defects: towards a string theoretic description of black hole formation. Physical Review D, Particles and fields, 64(6), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.064011

Journal Article Type Article
Online Publication Date Sep 15, 2001
Publication Date Sep 15, 2001
Deposit Date Feb 25, 2008
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Physical Review D, Particles and fields
Print ISSN 0556-2821
Electronic ISSN 1089-4918
Publisher American Physical Society
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 64
Issue 6
DOI https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.64.064011
Publisher URL http://publish.aps.org/abstract/PRD/V64/E064011/

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