Supersymmetric black holes in 2D dilaton supergravity: baldness and extremality

TL;DR

This paper systematically analyzes supersymmetric solutions in 2D dilaton supergravity, establishing conditions for ground states and black holes, and proving the absence of hair and certain types of states, with implications for understanding supersymmetric black holes.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive classification of supersymmetric solutions, including black holes, in 2D dilaton supergravity, and demonstrates the invariance of key features under matter coupling.

Findings

Supersymmetric ground states retain at least half of the supersymmetries.

Black hole solutions with multiple horizons can be obtained by tuning the prepotential.

No dilatino or gravitino hair exists in these solutions.

Abstract

We present a systematic discussion of supersymmetric solutions of 2D dilaton supergravity. In particular those solutions which retain at least half of the supersymmetries are ground states with respect to the bosonic Casimir function (essentially the ADM mass). Nevertheless, by tuning the prepotential appropriately, black hole solutions may emerge with an arbitrary number of Killing horizons. The absence of dilatino and gravitino hair is proven. Moreover, the impossibility of supersymmetric dS ground states and of nonextremal black holes is confirmed, even in the presence of a dilaton. In these derivations the knowledge of the general analytic solution of 2D dilaton supergravity plays an important role. The latter result is addressed in the more general context of gPSMs which have no supergravity interpretation. Finally it is demonstrated that the inclusion of non-minimally coupled matter, a step which is already nontrivial by itself, does not change these features in an essential way.