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Mock modularity from black hole scattering states. (English) Zbl 1405.83035

Summary: The exact degeneracies of quarter-BPS dyons in Type II string theory on \(K3 \times T^2\) are given by Fourier coefficients of the inverse of the Igusa cusp form. For a fixed magnetic charge invariant \(m\), the generating function of these degeneracies naturally decomposes as a sum of two parts, which are supposed to account for single-centered black holes, and two-centered black hole bound states, respectively. The decomposition is such that each part is separately modular covariant but neither is holomorphic, calling for a physical interpretation of the non-holomorphy. We resolve this puzzle by computing the supersymmetric index of the quantum mechanics of two-centered half-BPS black-holes, which we model by geodesic motion on Taub-NUT space subject to a certain potential. We compute a suitable index using localization methods, and find that it includes both a temperature-independent contribution from BPS bound states, as well as a temperature-dependent contribution due to a spectral asymmetry in the continuum of scattering states. The continuum contribution agrees precisely with the non-holomorphic completion term required for the modularity of the generating function of two-centered black hole bound states.

MSC:

83C57 Black holes
81U05 \(2\)-body potential quantum scattering theory
83E30 String and superstring theories in gravitational theory
81T40 Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics
35Q51 Soliton equations

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