The M2/M5 BPS partition functions from supergravity

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/083zbMATH Open1243.81182arXiv0810.4648OpenAlexW2044849237MaRDI QIDQ438341FDOQ438341

Pedro J. Silva

Publication date: 31 July 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the framework of the AdS/CFT duality, we calculate the supersymmetric partition function of the superconformal field theories living in the world volume of either $N$ $M2$-branes or $N$ $M5$-branes. We used the dual supergravity partition function in a saddle point approximation over supersymmetric Black Holes. Since our BHs are written in asymptotically global $Ad{S}_{d+1}$ co-ordinates, the dual SCFTs are in $Rx{S}^d$ for $d=2,5$. The resulting partition function shows phase transitions, constraints on the phase space and allowed us to identify unstable BPS Black hole in the $AdS$ phase. These configurations should correspond to unstable configurations in the dual theory. We also report an intriguing relation between the most general Witten Index, computed in the above theories, and our BPS partition functions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.4648

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Black holes (83C57) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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