Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-03-03
Phys.Rev.D79:084036,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages, 3 figures, v2 a new paragraph added, typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.084036
It is shown that the $E_{6(6)}$ symmetric entropy formula describing black holes and black strings in D=5 is intimately tied to the geometry of the generalized quadrangle GQ$(2,4)$ with automorphism group the Weyl group $W(E_6)$. The 27 charges correspond to the points and the 45 terms in the entropy formula to the lines of GQ$(2,4)$. Different truncations with $15, 11$ and 9 charges are represented by three distinguished subconfigurations of GQ$(2,4)$, well-known to finite geometers; these are the "doily" (i. e. GQ$(2,2)$) with 15, the "perp-set" of a point with 11, and the "grid" (i. e. GQ$(2,1)$) with 9 points, respectively. In order to obtain the correct signs for the terms in the entropy formula, we use a non- commutative labelling for the points of GQ$(2,4)$. For the 40 different possible truncations with 9 charges this labelling yields 120 Mermin squares -- objects well-known from studies concerning Bell-Kochen-Specker-like theorems. These results are connected to our previous ones obtained for the $E_{7(7)}$ symmetric entropy formula in D=4 by observing that the structure of GQ$(2,4)$ is linked to a particular kind of geometric hyperplane of the split Cayley hexagon of order two, featuring 27 points located on 9 pairwise disjoint lines (a distance-3-spread). We conjecture that the different possibilities of describing the D=5 entropy formula using Jordan algebras, qubits and/or qutrits correspond to employing different coordinates for an underlying non-commutative geometric structure based on GQ$(2,4)$.
Lévay Péter
Pracna Petr
Saniga Metod
Vrana Peter
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