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Counting BPS Blackholes in Toroidal Type II String Theory

arXiv:hep-th/9903163

Abstract

We derive a -duality invariant formula for the degeneracies of BPS multiplets in a D1-D5 system for toroidal compactification of the type II string. The elliptic genus for this system vanishes, but it is found that BPS states can nevertheless be counted using a certain topological partition function involving two insertions of the fermion number operator. This is possible due to four extra toroidal U(1) symmetries arising from a Wigner contraction of a large algebra for . We also compare the answer with a counting formula derived from supergravity on and find agreement within the expected range of validity.

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