All superalgebras for warped AdS2 and black hole near horizon geometries
Journal article, 2019

We identify all symmetry superalgebras 𝔤 of near horizon geometries of black holes with a Killing horizon, assuming the solution is smooth and that the spatial cross section of the event horizon is compact without boundary. This includes all warped AdS2 backgrounds with the most general allowed fluxes in 10- and 11-dimensional supergravities. If the index of a particular Dirac operator vanishes, we find that the even symmetry subalgebra decomposes as 𝔤0=𝔰𝔩(2,ℝ)⊕𝔱0, where 𝔱0/𝔠 is the Lie algebra of a group that acts transitively and effectively on spheres, and 𝔠 is the center of 𝔤. If the Dirac operator index does not vanish, then the symmetry superalgebra is nilpotent with one even generator. We also demonstrate that there are no near horizon geometries, and also therefore no warped AdS2 backgrounds, in 10- and 11-dimensions that preserve more than 16 supersymmetries.

supergravity

black holes

superalgebras

Author

Ulf Gran

Chalmers, Physics, Theoretical Physics

Jan Gutowski

University of Surrey

George Papadopoulos

King's College London

Classical and Quantum Gravity

0264-9381 (ISSN) 13616382 (eISSN)

Vol. 36 23 235009

Subject Categories

Subatomic Physics

Other Physics Topics

Roots

Basic sciences

DOI

10.1088/1361-6382/ab4cd3

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4/24/2020