• DOI:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/09/056
• Corpus ID: 13914123

Quantum Attractor Flows

@article{Gunaydin2007QuantumAF,
  title={Quantum Attractor Flows},
  author={Murat Gunaydin and Andrew Neitzke and Boris Pioline and Andrew Waldron},
  journal={Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year={2007},
  volume={2007},
  pages={056-056}
}

• M. Gunaydin, A. Neitzke, +1 author A. Waldron
• Published 2 July 2007
• Mathematics
• Journal of High Energy Physics

Motivated by the interpretation of the Ooguri-Strominger-Vafa conjecture as a holographic correspondence in the mini-superspace approximation, we study the radial quantization of stationary, spherically symmetric black holes in four dimensions. A key ingredient is the classical equivalence between the radial evolution equation and geodesic motion of a fiducial particle on the moduli space M*3 of the three-dimensional theory after reduction along the time direction. In the case of N = 2 supergravity, M*3 is a para-quaternionic-Kahler manifold; in this case, we show that BPS black holes correspond to a particular class of geodesics which lift holomorphically to the twistor space Z of M*3, and identify Z as the BPS phase space. We give a natural quantization of the BPS phase space in terms of the sheaf cohomology of Z, and compute the exact wave function of a BPS black hole with fixed electric and magnetic charges in this framework. We comment on the relation to the topological string amplitude, extensions to N > 2 supergravity theories, and applications to automorphic black hole partition functions.