Large superconformal near-horizons from M-theory

TL;DR

This paper classifies supersymmetric solutions in 11D supergravity with specific symmetries, revealing new geometries with large superconformal symmetry and potential applications to black hole microstates.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of solutions with $SO(2,2) imes SO(3)$ symmetry, identifying new geometries with large superconformal symmetry and implications for M-theory compactifications.

Findings

Recovered the MSW near-horizon geometry.

Identified new $AdS_3 imes S^2 imes S^2 imes CY_2$ geometries.

Proposed a candidate near-horizon for extremal black holes.

Abstract

We report on a classification of supersymmetric solutions to 11D supergravity with $SO(2,2) \times SO(3)$ isometry, which are AdS/CFT dual to 2D CFTs with $\mathcal{N} = (0,4)$ supersymmetry. We recover the Maldacena, Strominger, Witten (MSW) near-horizon with small superconformal symmetry and identify a class of $AdS_3 \times S^2 \times S^2 \times CY_2$ geometries with emergent large superconformal symmetry. This exhausts known compact geometries. Compactification of M-theory on $CY_2$ results in a vacuum of 7D supergravity with large superconformal symmetry, providing a candidate near-horizon for an extremal black hole and a potential new setting to address microstates.