17.02.2023 (Friday)

TP A quantum mechanics for magnetic horizons

journal club Benotti Genolini Pietro (King's College London)

at:
13:15 - 14:15
KCL, Strand
room: S7.06
abstract:

We construct an N = 2 supersymmetric gauged quantum mechanics, by starting from the 3d Chern-Simons-matter theory holographically dual to massive Type IIA string theory on AdS_4 × S^6, and Kaluza-Klein reducing on S^2 with a background that is dual to the asymptotics of static dyonic BPS black holes in AdS4. The background involves a choice of gauge fluxes, that we fix via a saddle-point analysis of the 3d topologically twisted index at large N. The ground-state degeneracy of the effective quantum mechanics reproduces the entropy of BPS black holes, and we expect its low-lying spectrum to contain information about near-extremal horizons. Interestingly, the model has a large number of statistically distributed couplings, reminiscent of SYK models.

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