Black hole attractors and the topological string

Hirosi Ooguri, Andrew Strominger, and Cumrun Vafa
Phys. Rev. D 70, 106007 – Published 19 November 2004

Abstract

A simple relationship of the form ZBH=|Ztop|2 is conjectured, where ZBH is a supersymmetric partition function for a four-dimensional BPS black hole in a Calabi-Yau compactification of Type II superstring theory and Ztop is a second-quantized topological string partition function evaluated at the attractor point in moduli space associated to the black hole charges. Evidence for the conjecture in a perturbation expansion about large graviphoton charge is given. The microcanonical ensemble of BPS black holes can be viewed as the Wigner function associated to the wave function defined by the topological string partition function.

  • Received 15 July 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.70.106007

©2004 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hirosi Ooguri1, Andrew Strominger2, and Cumrun Vafa2

  • 1California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2Jefferson Physical Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

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Vol. 70, Iss. 10 — 15 November 2004

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