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Smooth Horizonless Geometries Deep Inside the Black-Hole Regime

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7]
  1. University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France); DOE/OSTI
  2. University of Padova (Italy)
  3. University of Chicago, IL (United States). Enrico Fermi Institute
  4. Queen Mary University of London (United Kingdom)
  5. Kyoto University (Japan)
  6. University Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  7. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Here we construct the first family of horizonless supergravity solutions that have the same mass, charges, and angular momenta as general supersymmetric rotating D1 − D5 − P black holes in five dimensions. This family includes solutions with arbitrarily small angular momenta, deep within the regime of quantum numbers and couplings for which a large classical black hole exists. These geometries are well approximated by the black-hole solution, and in particular exhibit the same near-horizon throat. Deep in this throat, the black-hole singularity is resolved into a smooth cap. We also identify the holographically dual states in the $$\mathscr{N}$$ = (4, 4) D1 − D5 orbifold conformal field theory (CFT). Our solutions are among the states counted by the CFT elliptic genus, and provide examples of smooth microstate geometries within the ensemble of supersymmetric black-hole microstates.
Research Organization:
University of Chicago, IL (United States); University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC); John Templeton Foundation Grant; Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC); Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0009924; SC0011687
OSTI ID:
1536442
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1331230
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 20 Vol. 117; ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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