Negative discriminant states in N = 4 supersymmetric string theories

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DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)073zbMATH Open1303.81183arXiv1104.1498MaRDI QIDQ489570FDOQ489570


Authors: Ashoke Sen Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: Single centered BPS black hole solutions exist only when the charge carried by the black hole has positive discriminant. On the other hand the exact dyon spectrum in heterotic string theory compactified on T^6 is known to contain states with negative discriminant. We show that all of these negative discriminant states can be accounted for as two centered black holes. Thus after the contribution to the index from the two centered black holes is subtracted from the total microscopic index, the index for states with negative discriminant vanishes even for finite values of charges, in agreement with the results from the black hole side. Bound state metamorphosis -- which requires us to identify certain apparently different two centered configurations according to a specific set of rules -- plays a crucial role in this analysis. We also generalize these results to a class of CHL string theories.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1498




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