Branes at angles and black holes

Vijay Balasubramanian, Finn Larsen, and Robert G. Leigh
Phys. Rev. D 57, 3509 – Published 15 March 1998
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Abstract

We construct the most general supersymmetric configuration of D2-branes and D6-branes on a 6-torus. It contains arbitrary numbers of branes at relative U(3) angles. The corresponding supergravity solutions are constructed and expressed in a remarkably simple form, using the complex geometry of the compact space. The spacetime supersymmetry of the configuration is verified explicitly, by solution of the Killing spinor equations, and the equations of motion are verified too. Our configurations can be interpreted as a 16-parameter family of regular extremal black holes in four dimensions. Their entropy is interpreted microscopically by counting the degeneracy of bound states of D-branes. Our result agrees in detail with the prediction for the degeneracy of BPS states in terms of the quartic invariant of the E(7,7) duality group.

  • Received 12 May 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.57.3509

©1998 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Vijay Balasubramanian*

  • Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Finn Larsen

  • David Rittenhouse Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

Robert G. Leigh

  • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

  • *Email address: vijayb@pauli.harvard.edu
  • Email address: larsen@cvetic.hep.upenn.edu
  • Email address: rgleigh@uiuc.edu

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Vol. 57, Iss. 6 — 15 March 1998

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