We study non-BPS black hole solutions to ungauged supergravity with 8 supercharges coupled to vector multiplets in four and five dimensions. We identify a large class of five dimensional non-BPS solutions, which we call “almost BPS”, that are supersymmetric on local patches and satisfy a first order flow governed by harmonic functions. We show how these first order equations imply the full equations of motion. (NOTE UNUSUAL HOUR AND DAY)

University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)