Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-06-27
JHEP 0508 (2005) 071
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
36 pages, uses JHEP3.cls; v5: the "extra charge", which was, mistakenly identified as angular momentum, is now correctly ident
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/08/071
We discuss the degeneracies of 4D and 5D BPS black holes in toroidal compactifications of M-theory or type II string theory, using U-duality as a tool. We generalize the 4D/5D lift to include all charges in N=8 supergravity, and compute the exact indexed degeneracies of certain 4D 1/8-BPS black holes. Using the attractor formalism, we obtain the leading micro-canonical entropy for arbitrary Legendre invariant prepotentials and non-vanishing D6-brane charge. In particular, we find that the N=8 prepotential is given to leading order by the cubic invariant of $E_6$. This suggests that the minimal unitary representation of $E_8$, based on the same cubic prepotential, underlies the microscopic degeneracies of N=8 black holes. We propose that the exact degeneracies are given by the Wigner function of the $E_8(Z)$ invariant vector in this automorphic representation. A similar conjecture relates the degeneracies of N=4 black holes to the minimal unipotent representation of $SO(8,24,Z)$.
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