2021/12/31 by Bidisha Chakrabarty, Sami Rawash, David Turton · 14 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Charge (physics) #Classical mechanics #Computer science #Context (archaeology) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gravitation #Ministate #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · open access · doi:10.1007/jhep02(2022)202
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2022(2) (Springer Nature) · 40 pages, v2: typos fixed
openalex publication_date 2022/02/01 · arxiv created 2022/02/28 · arxiv updated 2022/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Gravitational solutions involving shockwaves have attracted significant recent interest in the context of black holes and quantum chaos. Certain classes of supersymmetric two-charge black hole microstates are described by supergravity solutions containing shockwaves, that are horizonless and smooth away from the shockwave. These configurations have been used to describe how black hole microstates absorb and scramble perturbations. In this paper we construct the first family of asymptotically flat supersymmetric three-charge microstate solutions that contain shockwaves. We identify a family of holographically dual states of the D1-D5 CFT and show that these pass a set of tests, including a precision holographic test. We find precise agreement between gravity and CFT. Our results may prove useful for constructing more general families of black hole microstate solutions.