Journal of High Energy Physics (Oct 2022)

Resolving black-hole microstructure with new momentum carriers

  • Iosif Bena,
  • Nejc Čeplak,
  • Shaun Hampton,
  • Yixuan Li,
  • Dimitrios Toulikas,
  • Nicholas P. Warner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2022)033
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 10
pp. 1 – 39

Abstract

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Abstract All known horizonless black-hole microstate geometries correspond to brane sources that acquire a finite size, and hence break the spherical symmetry of the black hole. We construct, for the first time, solutions with zero horizon area that have the same charges as a three-charge F1-NS5-P Type-IIA black hole and preserve this spherical symmetry. The momentum of these solutions is carried by longitudinal D0-D4 density fluctuations inside the NS5-branes. We argue that these solutions should be interpreted as the long-throat limit of a family of smooth, horizonless microstate geometries, called superstrata, where such geometries degenerate. The existence of these geometries indicates that a finite-size horizon does not appear even in the singular corners of the moduli space of three-charge microstate geometries.

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