Black hole solutions in string theory

TL;DR

This paper reviews the current understanding of supersymmetric black hole solutions in higher-dimensional supergravity theories, emphasizing their gravitational properties, derivation methods, and relation to branes in string theory.

Contribution

It provides a systematic review of supersymmetric black hole solutions, including their derivation, properties, and connections to branes in ten and eleven-dimensional supergravity.

Findings

Summary of supersymmetric black hole solutions in various dimensions

Analysis of intersecting branes and their black object counterparts

Discussion of duality transformations and dimensional reduction effects

Abstract

Supersymmetric solutions of supergravity have been of particular importance in the advances of string theory. This article reviews the current status of black hole solutions in higher-dimensional supergravity theories. We discuss primarily the gravitational aspects of supersymmetric black holes and their relatives in various dimensions. Supersymmetric solutions and their systematic derivation are reviewed with prime examples. We also study the stationary or dynamically intersecting branes in ten and eleven-dimensions, which provide a number of interesting black objects via the dimensional reduction and duality transformations.