Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1999-01-28
Nucl.Phys. B554 (1999) 237-253
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
18 pages, Latex, minor notation improvements and references added
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00299-0
We present new anti-de Sitter black hole solutions of gauged N=8, SO(8) supergravity, which is the massless sector of the AdS_4\times S^7 vacuum of M-theory. By focusing on the U(1)^4 Cartan subgroup, we find non-extremal 1, 2, 3 and 4 charge solutions. In the extremal limit, they may preserve up to 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 and 1/8 of the supersymmetry, respectively. In the limit of vanishing SO(8) coupling constant, the solutions reduce to the familiar black holes of the M_4\times T^7 vacuum, but have very different interpretation since there are no winding states on S^7 and no U-duality. In contrast to the T^7 compactification, moreover, we find no static multi-center solutions. Also in contrast, the S^7 fields appear "already dualized" so that the 4 charges may be all electric or all magnetic rather than 2 electric and 2 magnetic. Curiously, however, the magnetic solutions preserve no supersymmetries. We conjecture that a subset of the extreme electric black holes preserving 1/2 the supersymmetry may be identified with the S^7 Kaluza-Klein spectrum, with the non-abelian SO(8) quantum numbers provided by the fermionic zero modes.
Duff M. J.
Liu James T.
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