Published March 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Typicality, black hole microstates and superconformal field theories

  • 1. David Rittenhouse Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (United States)
  • 2. Merton College, Mathematical Institute and R. Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 4JD (United Kingdom)
  • 3. School of Mathematics and Maxwell Inst. Mathematical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Kings' Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ (United Kingdom)

Description

We analyze the structure of heavy multitrace BPS operators in N = 1 superconformal quiver gauge theories that arise on the worldvolume of D3-branes on an affine toric cone. We exhibit a geometric procedure for counting heavy mesonic operators with given U(1) charges. We show that for any fixed linear combination of the U(1) charges, the entropy is maximized when the charges are in certain ratios. This selects preferred directions in the charge space that can be determined with the help of a piece of string. We show that almost all heavy mesonic operators of fixed U(1) charges share a universal structure. This universality reflects the properties of the dual extremal black holes whose microstates they create. We also interpret our results in terms of typical configurations of dual giant gravitons in AdS space

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/03/008

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
03
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 008
ISSN
1126-6708