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Black Hole Berry Phase
Jan de Boer, Kyriakos Papadodimas, Erik Verlinde
Supersymmetric black holes are characterized by a large number of degenerate ground states. We argue that these black holes, like other quantum mechanical systems with such a degen…
The chiral ring of AdS3/CFT2 and the attractor mechanism
Jan de Boer, Jan Manschot, Kyriakos Papadodimas +1
We study the moduli dependence of the chiral ring in N = (4,4) superconformal field theories, with special emphasis on those CFTs that are dual to type IIB string theory on AdS3xS3…
A Farey Tail for Attractor Black Holes
Jan de Boer, Miranda C. N. Cheng, Robbert Dijkgraaf +2
The microstates of 4d BPS black holes in IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau manifold are counted by a (generalized) elliptic genus of a (0,4) conformal field theory. By…
A Matrix Big Bang
Ben Craps, Savdeep Sethi, Erik Verlinde
The light-like linear dilaton background represents a particularly simple time-dependent 1/2 BPS solution of critical type IIA superstring theory in ten dimensions. Its lift to M-t…
Hartle-Hawking Wave-Function for Flux Compactifications
Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa, Erik Verlinde
We argue that the topological string partition function, which has been known to correspond to a wave-function, can be interpreted as an exact ``wave-function of the universe'' in…
De Sitter Holography with a Finite Number of States
Maulik K. Parikh, Erik P. Verlinde
We investigate the possibility that, in a combined theory of quantum mechanics and gravity, de Sitter space is described by finitely many states. The notion of observer complementa…