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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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CitationC.N. Pope, H. Lu, H. Sati, James T. Liu, J.X. Lu, M. Cvetic, M.J. Duff, P. Hoxha, R. Martinez-Acosta, T.A. Tran. "Embedding AdS Black Holes in Ten and Eleven Dimensions." arXiv:hep-th/9903214 (1999). https://pith.science/paper/ZXOIIA77
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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

The paper asks a bookkeeping question with physical teeth: when a five-, four- or seven-dimensional gauged supergravity is supposed to come from compactifying ten- or eleven-dimensional supergravity on a sphere, what exactly is the formula that takes a lower-dimensional solution back upstairs? The authors write down explicit, non-linear Kaluza-Klein ansätze for the $S^5$ reduction of type IIB supergravity and the $S^7$ and $S^4$ reductions of eleven-dimensional supergravity, truncated to the commuting $U(1)$ gauge fields inside $SO(6)$, $SO(8)$ and $SO(5)$. The hard part is the scalars: the metric ansatz carries the constrained quantities $X_i$ (with $X_1X_2X_3=1$, $X_1X_2X_3X_4=1$, or two independent $X_i$ in seven dimensions) sitting inside a sphere factor $d s^2 = g^{-2} d s_d^2$ plus $g^{-2}$ times a sum over $dmu_i^2 + mu_i^2(dvarphi_i + g A^i)^2$. With those formulas in hand the authors lift the known multi-charge anti-de Sitter black holes of $D=5$, $D=4$ and $D=7$ into type IIB and M-theory. The payoff is an identification: for the black holes with toroidal horizons, the higher-dimensional solution is exactly the near-horizon decoupling limit of a D3-, M2- or M5-brane spinning in its transverse directions, the black hole charges are the brane angular momenta, and the horizon coincides with the brane worldvolume.

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.

Extended reading notes

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.

Editorial extensions

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  • 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.

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  • 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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281 later papers cite it

Evidence: substantial. 258 of the citing papers share no author with it, and 46 of those carry a confident label from Pith's citation classifier.

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  • Showed that for the analytic black hole geometries with four electric charges found in this paper, or the magnetic analogues it writes down, an eta=1 geometry is obtained in the far IR as T goes to zero after setting one charge to zero.

    Semi-local quantum criticality in string/M-theory (2012) · 0.85 · paraphrased: the licence does not allow quoting

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  • These configurations agree with those in [ref] if one identifies $β_i^there=i β_i^here$ in the hyperbolic case.]

    Singular limits in STU supergravity (2023) (same authors) · AdS-BH limits · 1.00

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265 arXiv papers cite this in 533 sentences

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  • The uplift formula, [ref] , is given for the metric, [equation] and for the self-dual five-form flux, $F_(5) = G_(5)+*G_(5)$,[A sign error in the second term of the formula in [ref] is corrected in [ref] and [ref] .] [equation] where we define [equation] and $vol_5$ and $*_5$ denote the volume form and the Hodge dual with respect to the five-dimensional metric, $ds_5^2$, respectively.

    D3-branes and M5-branes wrapped on a topological disc · Uplift to type IIB supergravity · contest 0.76

  • Any supersymmetric solution of this model can be uplifted on $S^5$ to give a supersymmetric solution of type IIB supergravity using the results of [ref] .[As pointed out in [ref] there is a typo in the five-form flux in [ref] .

    Supersymmetric spindles · The $D=5$ gauged supergravity model · contest 0.80

  • As in [ref] we have corrected the sign of the second factor in [ref], compared with the expression given in [ref] .

    Twisted D3-brane and M5-brane compactifications from multi-charge spindles · Local form of the solutions · contest 0.81

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  • Nonetheless, extending the arguments of [ref] , it was shown in[See [ref] for related earlier work.] [ref] that RN black holes in $AdS_5×S^5$ have instabilities involving a combination of off-diagonal gauge fields and neutral scalars, when interpreted within STU consistent truncation [ref] of type IIB supergravity.

    The ordered phase of charged N=4 SYM plasma · Introduction and summary · 0.88

  • We show that for the class of analytic black hole geometries with four electric charges found in [ref] , or the magnetic analogues which we write down here, we can obtain an $η=1$ geometry in the far IR as $T→0$ after setting one of the charges to zero.

    Semi-local quantum criticality in string/M-theory · Introduction · 0.85

  • These solutions are double analytic continuations of a particular case of the electrically charged black hole solutions of the $U(1)^3$ truncation of the maximal gauged supergravity in five dimensions theory [ref] , which oxidize to spinning D3 branes in 10 dimensions.

    Supersymmetric AdS Solitons and the interconnection of different vacua of ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills · New AdS soliton in Type IIB supergravity · 0.87

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  • Of course, the well-known consistent KK reductions of $D=11$ supergravity on $S^4$ [ref] and $S^7$ [ref] , or of IIB supergravity[No complete reduction ansatz of IIB supergravity on $S^5$ has been yet constructed.] on $S^5$ (see, e.g., [ref] ), related to the maximally supersymmetric solutions $AdS_7 ×S^4$, $AdS_4 ×S^7$ and $AdS_5 ×S^5$, respectively, are also examples supporting the conjecture.

    D=5 SU(2)xU(1) Gauged Supergravity from D=11 Supergravity · Introduction · 0.97

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