Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1996-08-08
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 61A (1998) 131-134; Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 55B (1997) 219-228
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
Latex file, 18 pages (less with optional macros included). Contribution to the Trieste Workshop on String Theory, Gauge theory
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0920-5632(97)00082-0
We review some recent work on the existence and classification of extreme black-hole-type solutions in N=8 supergravity. For the black holes considered (those that are also solutions of N=4 supergravity and of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with coupling a) a complete classification is achieved: the only possible values of a are \sqrt{3},1,1/\sqrt{3},0. Up to U duality transformations there is only one solution for each of those values. The exception is a=0 for which an additional extreme but non-supersymmetric Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole solution exists. We also study the so-called massless black-hole solutions. We argue that they can be understood as composite objects. At least one of the components would have ``negative mass''. We also argue that these states, being annihilated by all the generators in the supersymmetry algebra, could also constitute alternative vacua of the supergravity theory.
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