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Nearing the Horizon of a Heterotic String
Joshua M. Lapan, Aaron Simons, Andrew Strominger
It is argued that recent developments point to the existence of an AdS_3 x S^2 x T^5 holographic dual for the 2D CFT living on the worldsheet of N coincident heterotic strings in a…
Black Hole Entropy, Marginal Stability and Mirror Symmetry
Paul S. Aspinwall, Alexander Maloney, Aaron Simons
We consider the superconformal quantum mechanics associated to BPS black holes in type IIB Calabi-Yau compactifications. This quantum mechanics describes the dynamics of D-branes i…
D4-D0 Branes on the Quintic
Davide Gaiotto, Monica Guica, Lisa Huang +3
It is proposed that the quantum mechanics of N D4-branes and M D0-branes on the quintic is described by the dimensional reduction of a certain U(N)xU(M) quiver gauge theory, whose…
D0-branes in Black Hole Attractors
Davide Gaiotto, Aaron Simons, Andrew Strominger +1
Configurations of N probe D0-branes in a Calabi-Yau black hole are studied. A large degeneracy of near-horizon bound states are found which can be described as lowest Landau levels…
Supersymmetric Branes in AdS_2 x S^2 x CY_3
Aaron Simons, Andrew Strominger, David Thompson +1
The problem of finding supersymmetric brane configurations in the near-horizon attractor geometry of a Calabi-Yau black hole with magnetic-electric charges (p^I,q_I) is considered.…