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Embedding AdS Black Holes in Ten and Eleven Dimensions
High Energy Physics - Theory · Submitted 26 Mar 1999 · 66 references
Pith's verdict: The paper that made sphere reductions usable: explicit scalar-included ansaetze for S5, S7 and S4, and the flat-horizon AdS black holes identified as near-horizon limits of spinning D3, M2 and M5 branes.
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The paper claims
The paper writes down the explicit dictionary that lifts five-, four- and seven-dimensional gauged supergravity solutions back into ten and eleven dimensions, and uses it to show that charged anti-de Sitter black holes with flat horizons *
The reading
What carries the argument
The load-bearing object is the non-linear metric ansatz $d s_D^2 = tilde{Delta}^{a} d s_d^2 + g^{-2} tilde{Delta}^{-b} sum_i X_i^{-1} (dmu_i^2 + mu_i^2 (dvarphi_i + g A^i_{(1)})^2)$, with $tilde{Delta} = sum_i X_i mu_i^2$ and $sum_i mu_i^2 = 1$, paired with a matching ansatz for the 5-form of type IIB or the 4-form of eleven-dimensional supergravity. The scalars enter both through the $X_i$ and through the mixing function $tilde{Delta}$, so the sphere coordinates and the lower-dimensional scalar fields are entangled in a way that has no analogue in toroidal reductions. What makes the construction work is a cancellation: in the higher-dimensional Einstein equation the metric contribution and the form-field contribution must combine so that all explicit $mu_i$ dependence disappears, leaving a lower-dimensional equation times an overall sphere factor. The authors demonstrate this explicitly for the four-dimensional Einstein equation of the $S^7$ case (equations 3.10 to 3.14) and give general curvature formulas for odd spheres in Appendix C. A second piece of machinery is the decoupling-limit rescaling that turns a rotating brane metric into the product of a lower-dimensional black hole and the sphere factor above, which is how the ansatz is reverse-engineered in the first place.
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Core claim
The central claim is that the $U(1)^3$, $U(1)^4$ and $U(1)^2$ truncations of $D=5$, $D=4$ and $D=7$ gauged supergravities embed exactly, and non-linearly, into type IIB supergravity on $S^5$ and eleven-dimensional supergravity on $S^7$ and $S^4$, with the scalar fields included. The authors exhibit the metric ansätze (2.1), (3.1) and (4.1) together with the form-field ansätze (2.8), (3.6) and (4.2), and verify that substituting them into the higher-dimensional equations of motion reproduces the lower-dimensional equations with every $mu_i$-dependent term cancelling. Using these general formulas they oxidise the charged anti-de Sitter black holes of Behrndt-Cvetič-Sabra, Duff-Liu and the seven-dimensional two-charge solutions, and show that the flat-horizon ($k=0$) cases are precisely the decoupling limits of rotating D3-, M2- and M5-branes obtained by rescaling $m$, $sinh alpha$, $r$, $x^mu$ and the angular momenta $ell_i$ and sending the rescaling parameter to zero. The charges of the black hole are read off as angular momenta of the spinning brane, and the event horizon is the brane worldvolume. The authors also give the general single-charge rotating $p$-brane in arbitrary dimensions, obtained by diagonal oxidation of known rotating black holes, and note that the same lifting procedure reinterprets the spherical and hyperbolic horizon black holes as branes whose worldvolumes have those topologies.
Load-bearing premise
The whole construction rests on the truncation being consistent: that plugging the metric and form-field ansätze into the ten- or eleven-dimensional equations of motion produces exactly the lower-dimensional equations with all sphere dependence cancelling, and the authors check this by explicit computation of selected components and by general curvature formulas for odd spheres rather than by a component-by-component proof, while also acknowledging that their $S^4$ truncation is not consistent in general and that their $S^7$ ansatz omits the axions.
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If this is right
- Any solution of the truncated $D=5$, $D=4$ or $D=7$ gauged supergravity — not just the black holes treated here — can be lifted to an exact solution of type IIB or eleven-dimensional supergravity using the explicit ansätze.
- The three- and four-charge anti-de Sitter black holes with flat horizons are the same objects as spinning D3-, M2- and M5-branes in their near-horizon decoupling limits, so their thermodynamic behaviour can be computed on either side of the correspondence.
- Because the horizon coincides with the brane worldvolume, the horizon topology of the black hole is inherited from the worldvolume topology of the brane, which gives a geometric reading of spherical and hyperbolic horizon solutions as branes with those worldvolumes.
- The general single-charge rotating $p$-brane solutions collected in Appendix A, together with the large-charge rescaling of section 5, produce a family of multi-charge black holes in a domain-wall background, with the anti-de Sitter case recovered when a particular parameter vanishes.
- The reduction formulas give a concrete route to studying other distortions of the sphere compactification — strings, domain walls, and black holes of other topologies — inside M-theory or string theory.
Reading between the lines
- The cancellation that makes the sphere reduction work is presented as a check rather than a theorem; a natural extension would be to prove that the ansatz solves the full set of higher-dimensional equations component by component, which would turn the construction from a verified truncation into a classification statement about which sphere compactifications admit scalar-carrying consistent trunca
- Because the identification is made between a black hole charge and a brane angular momentum, the same dictionary should translate rotation-based stability statements about spinning branes into statements about the thermodynamic stability of charged anti-de Sitter black holes, and vice versa.
- The authors note their $S^4$ truncation is not consistent in general and their $S^7$ ansatz omits the axions; restoring those fields would test whether the conspiracy between metric and form terms survives when the full $N=2$ spectrum is kept, and would decide whether the axion-free embedding is a special case or a genuine restriction.
- The observation that the horizon is the brane worldvolume suggests a membrane-paradigm style reading in which horizon fluid properties of these black holes are literally the worldvolume dynamics of the spinning brane, which is a concrete conjecture one could test by comparing transport coefficients computed on each side.
Original abstract
We construct the non-linear Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze describing the embeddings of the U(1)^3, U(1)^4 and U(1)^2 truncations of D=5, D=4 and D=7 gauged supergravities into the type IIB string and M-theory. These enable one to oxidise any associated lower dimensional solutions to D=10 or D=11. In particular, we use these general ans\"atze to embed the charged AdS_5, AdS_4 and AdS_7 black hole solutions in ten and eleven dimensions. The charges for the black holes with toroidal horizons may be interpreted as the angular momenta of D3-branes, M2-branes and M5-branes spinning in the tranverse dimensions, in their near-horizon decoupling limits. The horizons of the black holes coincide with the worldvolumes of the branes. The Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze also allow the black holes with spherical or hyperbolic horizons to be reinterpreted in D=10 or D=11.
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We construct the non-linear Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze describing the embeddings of the U(1)^3, U(1)^4 and U(1)^2 truncations of D=5, D=4 and D=7 gauged supergravities into the type IIB string and M-theory. These enable one to oxidise any associated lower dimensional solutions to D=10 or D=11. In particular, we use these general ans\"atze to embed the charged AdS_5, AdS_4 and AdS_7 black hole solutions in ten and eleven dimensions. The charges for the black holes with toroidal horizons may be interpreted as the angular momenta of D3-branes, M2-branes and M5-branes spinning in the tranverse dimensions, in their near-horizon decoupling limits. The horizons of the black holes coincide with the worldvolumes of the branes. The Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze also allow the black holes with spherical or hyperbolic horizons to be reinterpreted in D=10 or D=11.
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| s0 | We construct the non-linear Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze describing the embeddings of the U(1)^3, U(1)^4 and U(1)^2 truncations of D=5, D=4 and D=7 gauged supergravities into the type IIB string and M-theory. | contribution 0.98 | 0.95 | 0.23 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | These enable one to oxidise any associated lower dimensional solutions to D=10 or D=11. | method 0.54 | 0.52 | 0.12 | asserted 0.86 |
| s2 | In particular, we use these general ans\"atze to embed the charged AdS_5, AdS_4 and AdS_7 black hole solutions in ten and eleven dimensions. | contribution 0.86 | 0.93 | 0.42 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The charges for the black holes with toroidal horizons may be interpreted as the angular momenta of D3-branes, M2-branes and M5-branes spinning in the tranverse dimensions, in their near-horizon decoupling limits. | interpretation 1.00 | 0.65 | 0.16 | hedged possibility 1.00 |
| s4 | The horizons of the black holes coincide with the worldvolumes of the branes. | interpretation 0.87 | 0.68 | 0.08 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | The Kaluza-Klein ans\"atze also allow the black holes with spherical or hyperbolic horizons to be reinterpreted in D=10 or D=11. | interpretation 0.48 | 0.79 | 0.13 | asserted 0.87 |
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