1999/11/30 by Alexander Maloney, Marcus Spradlin, Andrew Strominger · 8 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Boson #Conformal map #Conformal symmetry #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Geometry #Horizon #Mathematical physics #Moduli space #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Supergravity #Supermultiplet #Supersymmetry #Symmetry (geometry) #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/003
published as JHEP 0204:003,2002 · 23 pages, harvmac. v2: many typos fixed
openalex publication_date 2002/04/02 · arxiv created 2002/06/27 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Quantum mechanics on the moduli space of N supersymmetric Reissner-Nordstrom black holes is shown to admit 4 supersymmetries using an unconventional supermultiplet which contains 3N bosons and 4N fermions. A near-horizon limit is found in which the quantum mechanics of widely separated black holes decouples from that of strongly-interacting, near-coincident black holes. This near-horizon theory is shown to have an enhanced D(2,1;0) superconformal symmetry. The bosonic symmetries are SL(2,R) conformal symmetry and SU(2)xSU(2) R-symmetry arising from spatial rotations and the R-symmetry of N=2 supergravity.