Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope

Abstract We provide a new roadmap for constructing microstates of non-extremal black holes in supergravity. First, we review the non-linear sigma model of five-dimensional supergravity governing stationary solutions with a U(1) isometry and present the first generalized Ernst formulation of this mod...

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Main Authors: Soumangsu Chakraborty, Pierre Heidmann
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Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2025-07-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)101
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description Abstract We provide a new roadmap for constructing microstates of non-extremal black holes in supergravity. First, we review the non-linear sigma model of five-dimensional supergravity governing stationary solutions with a U(1) isometry and present the first generalized Ernst formulation of this model. We then revisit solution-generating techniques associated to the coset model symmetry, Ernst formalism and inverse scattering method. While some of these techniques have been extensively used to generate non-extremal black holes and black rings in supergravity, we demonstrate how they can be adapted to construct systematically non-BPS smooth horizonless geometries that have the same mass and charges as non-extremal black holes. To illustrate these methods, we construct novel static solutions of this type, including a non-BPS generalization of the 1 2 $$ \frac{1}{2} $$ -BPS Gibbons-Hawking center, which has served as the fundamental building block of multicenter microstates of BPS black holes.
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spelling doaj-art-4db31e76b5084299a080dfb3fb2fc5602025-08-20T04:01:47ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792025-07-012025714010.1007/JHEP07(2025)101Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hopeSoumangsu Chakraborty0Pierre Heidmann1Department of Physics and Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Physics and Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics (CCAPP), The Ohio State UniversityAbstract We provide a new roadmap for constructing microstates of non-extremal black holes in supergravity. First, we review the non-linear sigma model of five-dimensional supergravity governing stationary solutions with a U(1) isometry and present the first generalized Ernst formulation of this model. We then revisit solution-generating techniques associated to the coset model symmetry, Ernst formalism and inverse scattering method. While some of these techniques have been extensively used to generate non-extremal black holes and black rings in supergravity, we demonstrate how they can be adapted to construct systematically non-BPS smooth horizonless geometries that have the same mass and charges as non-extremal black holes. To illustrate these methods, we construct novel static solutions of this type, including a non-BPS generalization of the 1 2 $$ \frac{1}{2} $$ -BPS Gibbons-Hawking center, which has served as the fundamental building block of multicenter microstates of BPS black holes.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2025)101Black HolesBlack Holes in String Theory
spellingShingle Soumangsu Chakraborty
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Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope
Journal of High Energy Physics
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Black Holes in String Theory
title Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope
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title_fullStr Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope
title_full_unstemmed Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope
title_short Microstates of non-extremal black holes: a new hope
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topic Black Holes
Black Holes in String Theory
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