Electric-magnetic duality and the geometric Langlands program

A Kapustin, E Witten - arxiv preprint hep-th/0604151, 2006 - arxiv.org
The geometric Langlands program can be described in a natural way by compactifying on a
Riemann surface C a twisted version of N= 4 super Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions …

Charge orbits of symmetric special geometries and attractors

S Bellucci, S Ferrara, M Günaydin… - International Journal of …, 2006 - World Scientific
We study the critical points of the black hole scalar potential V BH in N= 2, d= 4 supergravity
coupled to nV vector multiplets, in an asymptotically flat extremal black hole background …

Lectures on black holes, topological strings and quantum attractors

B Pioline - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In these lecture notes, we review some recent developments on the relation between the
macroscopic entropy of four-dimensional BPS black holes and the microscopic counting of …

The black-hole/qubit correspondence: an up-to-date review

L Borsten, MJ Duff, P Lévay - Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We give a review of the black-hole/qubit correspondence that incorporates not only the
earlier results on black-hole entropy and entanglement measures, seven qubits and the …

D-instantons and twistors

S Alexandrov, B Pioline, F Saueressig… - Journal of High Energy …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Finding the exact, quantum corrected metric on the hypermultiplet moduli space in Type II
string compactifications on Calabi-Yau threefolds is an outstanding open problem. We …

Universal BPS structure of stationary supergravity solutions

G Bossard, H Nicolai, KS Stelle - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We study asymptotically flat stationary solutions of four-dimensional supergravity theories
via the associated fraktur G/fraktur H* pseudo-Riemannian non-linear sigma models in three …

Generating geodesic flows and supergravity solutions

E Bergshoeff, W Chemissany, A Ploegh, M Trigiante… - Nuclear Physics B, 2009 - Elsevier
We consider the geodesic motion on the symmetric moduli spaces that arise after timelike
and spacelike reductions of supergravity theories. The geodesics correspond to timelike …

Extremal black holes, nilpotent orbits and the true fake superpotential

G Bossard, Y Michel, B Pioline - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
Dimensional reduction along time offers a powerful way to study stationary solutions of 4D
symmetric supergravity models via group-theoretical methods. We apply this approach …

Non-supersymmetric attractor flow in symmetric spaces

D Gaiotto, W Li, M Padi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We derive extremal black hole solutions for a variety of four dimensional models which, after
Kaluza-Klein reduction, admit a description in terms of 3D gravity coupled to a sigma model …

Wall-crossing, Rogers dilogarithm, and the QK/HK correspondence

S Alexandrov, D Persson, B Pioline - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
A bstract When formulated in twistor space, the D-instanton corrected hypermultiplet moduli
space in\(\mathcal {N}={2}\) string vacua and the Coulomb branch of rigid\(\mathcal {N}={2}\) …