Patch-wise localization with Chern-Simons forms in five dimensional supergravity

TL;DR

This paper develops a topological formula for the on-shell action of supersymmetric solutions in five-dimensional gauged supergravity, accommodating complex topologies and gauge fields, with applications to black holes, rings, and solitons.

Contribution

It introduces a novel localization method for computing on-shell actions that depend solely on topological data, applicable to a broad class of supersymmetric solutions.

Findings

Derived a general topological formula for on-shell actions

Connected topological data with thermodynamic parameters

Reproduced known results and predicted new AdS solutions

Abstract

In this paper, using equivariant localization for foliations, we compute the on-shell action of a general class of supersymmetric solutions of five-dimensional gauged supergravity with vector multiplets. Unlike previous literature, we also allow for a non-trivial topology for the space-time as well as for the gauge fields. In practice, we achieve this by covering the spacetime manifold with patches and localizing in each patch. We derive a general formula for the on-shell action that depends on topological data only and can be used without a detailed knowledge of the solution. Our final result is relevant for the physically interesting examples of multi-center black holes, black rings and black lenses, topological solitons and Euclidean black saddles. We also show how to connect the topological data with the thermodynamic data: electrostatic potential, the magnetic fluxes and the possible flat connections of the solutions. Our formula for the on-shell action is derived in the context of gauged supergravity, but it is straightforward to take the ungauged limit. Thus, we reproduce known results for a large class of explicit asymptotically flat supersymmetric solutions, and we provide predictions for AdS solutions still to be found.