Quantum Attractors and Black Hole Partition Functions

Quantum Attractors and Black Hole Partition Functions

Supersymmetric black hole solutions in supergravity exhibit the “attractor phenomenon”, as a result of which the near-horizon geometry depends only on the charges carried by the black hole and not the asymptotic values of the moduli. I will describe the radial quantization of spherically symmetric solutions of supergravity, in effect quantizing this attractor flow, and compute the supersymmetric wave function explicitly. I will comment on the relevance of this quantization for the construction of a partition function for black hole micro-states, consistent with duality symmetries.

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Date

28 September 2007
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Time

11h00 – 0h00

Location

Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774
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