scholarly journals The quantum mass gap of extremal black holes

2021 ◽  
pp. 136425
Author(s):  
Shahar Hod
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Mass Gap ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

scholarly journals The statistical mechanics of near-BPS black holes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Heydeman ◽  
Luca Iliesiu ◽  
Gustavo Joaquin Turiaci ◽  
Wenli Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Partition Function ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Extremal Black Hole ◽  
Mass Gap ◽  
Extremal State ◽  
Continuum Of States ◽  
Perturbative Corrections ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Abstract Due to the failure of thermodynamics for low temperature near-extremal black holes, it has long been conjectured that a "thermodynamic mass gap'' exists between an extremal black hole and the lightest near-extremal state. For non-supersymmetric near-extremal black holes in Einstein gravity with an AdS2 throat, no such gap was found. Rather, at that energy scale, the spectrum exhibits a continuum of states, up to non-perturbative corrections. In this paper, we compute the partition function of near-BPS black holes in supergravity where the emergent, broken, symmetry is PSU(1,1|2). To reliably compute this partition function, we show that the gravitational path integral can be reduced to that of a N=4 supersymmetric extension of the Schwarzian theory, which we define and exactly quantize. In contrast to the non-supersymmetric case, we find that black holes in supergravity have a mass gap and a large extremal black hole degeneracy consistent with the Bekenstein-Hawking area. Our results verify a plethora of string theory conjectures, concerning the scale of the mass gap and the counting of extremal micro-states.

scholarly journals New non-extremal and BPS hairy black holes in gauged $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 and $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 8 supergravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andres Anabalon ◽  
Dumitru Astefanesei ◽  
Antonio Gallerati ◽  
Mario Trigiante
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
Charged Black Hole ◽  
Dual Theory ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Hairy Black Holes ◽  
Interpolation Parameter ◽  
Black Hole Solutions ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Abstract In this article we study a family of four-dimensional, $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2 supergravity theories that interpolates between all the single dilaton truncations of the SO(8) gauged $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 8 supergravity. In this infinitely many theories characterized by two real numbers — the interpolation parameter and the dyonic “angle” of the gauging — we construct non-extremal electrically or magnetically charged black hole solutions and their supersymmetric limits. All the supersymmetric black holes have non-singular horizons with spherical, hyperbolic or planar topology. Some of these supersymmetric and non-extremal black holes are new examples in the $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 8 theory that do not belong to the STU model. We compute the asymptotic charges, thermodynamics and boundary conditions of these black holes and show that all of them, except one, introduce a triple trace deformation in the dual theory.

scholarly journals Slow scrambling in extremal BTZ and microstate geometries

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Craps ◽  
Marine De Clerck ◽  
Philip Hacker ◽  
Kévin Nguyen ◽  
Charles Rabideau
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Nonzero Temperature ◽  
Time Intervals ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Btz Black Holes ◽  
The Right ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Abstract Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) that capture maximally chaotic properties of a black hole are determined by scattering processes near the horizon. This prompts the question to what extent OTOCs display chaotic behaviour in horizonless microstate geometries. This question is complicated by the fact that Lyapunov growth of OTOCs requires nonzero temperature, whereas constructions of microstate geometries have been mostly restricted to extremal black holes.In this paper, we compute OTOCs for a class of extremal black holes, namely maximally rotating BTZ black holes, and show that on average they display “slow scrambling”, characterized by cubic (rather than exponential) growth. Superposed on this average power-law growth is a sawtooth pattern, whose steep parts correspond to brief periods of Lyapunov growth associated to the nonzero temperature of the right-moving degrees of freedom in a dual conformal field theory.Next we study the extent to which these OTOCs are modified in certain “superstrata”, horizonless microstate geometries corresponding to these black holes. Rather than an infinite throat ending on a horizon, these geometries have a very deep but finite throat ending in a cap. We find that the superstrata display the same slow scrambling as maximally rotating BTZ black holes, except that for large enough time intervals the growth of the OTOC is cut off by effects related to the cap region, some of which we evaluate explicitly.

scholarly journals Uptunneling to de Sitter

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehrdad Mirbabayi
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
False Vacuum ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Dimensional Theory ◽  
Hole Geometry ◽  
Horizon Geometry ◽  
Two Sides ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Abstract We propose a Euclidean preparation of an asymptotically AdS2 spacetime that contains an inflating dS2 bubble. The setup can be embedded in a four dimensional theory with a Minkowski vacuum and a false vacuum. AdS2 approximates the near horizon geometry of a two-sided near-extremal Reissner-Nordström black hole, and the two sides can connect to the same Minkowski asymptotics to form a topologically nontrivial worm- hole geometry. Likewise, in the false vacuum the near-horizon geometry of near-extremal black holes is approximately dS2 times 2-sphere. We interpret the Euclidean solution as describing the decay of an excitation inside the wormhole to a false vacuum bubble. The result is an inflating region inside a non-traversable asymptotically Minkowski wormhole.

scholarly journals Logarithmic correction to the entropy of extremal black holes in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 1 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gourav Banerjee ◽  
Sudip Karan ◽  
Binata Panda
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Heat Kernel ◽  
Proper Time ◽  
Logarithmic Correction ◽  
Functional Determinant ◽  
Supergravity Theory ◽  
Heat Kernel Expansion ◽  
Determinant Of Laplacian ◽  
Extremal Black Holes ◽  
Classical Background

Abstract We study one-loop covariant effective action of “non-minimally coupled” $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1, d = 4 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity theory by heat kernel tool. By fluctuating the fields around the classical background, we study the functional determinant of Laplacian differential operator following Seeley-DeWitt technique of heat kernel expansion in proper time. We then compute the Seeley-DeWitt coefficients obtained through the expansion. A particular Seeley-DeWitt coefficient is used for determining the logarithmic correction to Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of extremal black holes using quantum entropy function formalism. We thus determine the logarithmic correction to the entropy of Kerr-Newman, Kerr and Reissner-Nordström black holes in “non-minimally coupled” $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 1, d = 4 Einstein-Maxwell supergravity theory.

scholarly journals The statistical mechanics of near-extremal black holes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca V. Iliesiu ◽  
Gustavo J. Turiaci
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Partition Function ◽  
Gauge Field ◽  
Dimensional Reduction ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Energy Scale ◽  
Fixed Charge ◽  
Extremal Black Hole ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Abstract An important open question in black hole thermodynamics is about the existence of a “mass gap” between an extremal black hole and the lightest near-extremal state within a sector of fixed charge. In this paper, we reliably compute the partition function of Reissner-Nordström near-extremal black holes at temperature scales comparable to the conjectured gap. We find that the density of states at fixed charge does not exhibit a gap; rather, at the expected gap energy scale, we see a continuum of states. We compute the partition function in the canonical and grand canonical ensembles, keeping track of all the fields appearing through a dimensional reduction on S2 in the near-horizon region. Our calculation shows that the relevant degrees of freedom at low temperatures are those of 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity coupled to the electromagnetic U(1) gauge field and to an SO(3) gauge field generated by the dimensional reduction.

scholarly journals Area spectra of near extremal black holes

2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 289-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deyou Chen ◽  
Haitang Yang ◽  
Xiaotao Zu
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Area Spectra ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

scholarly journals EXTREMAL BLACK HOLES AND ELEMENTARY STRING STATES

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (28) ◽  
pp. 2081-2093 ◽  
Author(s):  
ASHOKE SEN
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Black Hole Entropy ◽  
Extremal Black Hole ◽  
Coupling Constant ◽  
Left Handed ◽  
Quantum Numbers ◽  
Independent Parameters ◽  
Elementary String ◽  
Extremal Black Holes

Some of the extremal black hole solutions in string theory have the same quantum numbers as the Bogomol’nyi saturated elementary string states. We explore the possibility that these black holes can be identified with elementary string excitations. It is shown that stringy effects could correct the Bekenstein-Hawking formula for the black hole entropy in such a way that it correctly reproduces the logarithm of the density of elementary string states. In particular, this entropy has the correct dependence on three independent parameters, the mass and the left-handed charge of the black hole, and the string coupling constant.

Non-supersymmetric Extremal Black Holes: First-Order Flows and Stabilisation Equations

2013 ◽  
pp. 221-231
Author(s):  
Pietro Galli ◽  
Kevin Goldstein ◽  
Stefanos Katmadas ◽  
Jan Perz
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
First Order ◽  
Extremal Black Holes
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