Three Charge Supertubes and Black Hole Hair

TL;DR

This paper constructs finite size, supersymmetric, multi-charge tubular D-brane configurations that could serve as black hole hair, providing insights into black hole microstates and the D1-D5-P system.

Contribution

It introduces new three-charge supertube configurations with multiple dipole moments, extending previous supertube models and exploring their relation to black hole physics.

Findings

Configurations have D0, D4, F1 charges and D2, D6, NS5 dipoles.

Properties are consistent with black hole hair in the D1-D5-P system.

Potential implications for black hole microstate counting.

Abstract

We construct finite size, supersymmetric, tubular D-brane configurations with three charges, two angular momenta and several brane dipole moments. In type IIA string theory these are tubular configurations with D0, D4 and F1 charge, as well as D2, D6 and NS5 dipole moments. These multi-charge generalizations of supertubes might have interesting consequences for the physics of the D1-D5-P black hole. We study the relation of the tubes to the spinning BMPV black hole, and find that they have properties consistent with describing some of the hair of this black hole.