Black Hole Solutions in String Theory

TL;DR

This paper explores new black hole solutions within low-energy heterotic string theory, revealing how different scalar couplings lead to novel black hole types and discussing their duality implications.

Contribution

It introduces two-parameter solutions that reduce to known supersymmetric objects and identifies a new string black hole with a unique scalar coupling value.

Findings

Discovered a new string black hole with $ extstyle \alpha=\sqrt{3}$

Connected solutions to supersymmetric monopoles, strings, and domain walls

Discussed duality implications from ten to four dimensions

Abstract

We present two-parameter solutions of the low-energy four-dimensional heterotic string which in the extremal limit reduce to supersymmetric monopole, string and domain wall solutions. The effective scalar coupling to the Maxwell field, $e^{-\alpha \phi} F_{\mu\nu} F^{\mu\nu}$, gives rise to a new string black hole with $\alpha = \sqrt{3}$, in contrast to the pure dilaton black hole solution which has $\alpha=1$. Implications of string/fivebrane duality in $D=10$ to four-dimensional dualities are discussed.