Matter Coupled AdS_3 Supergravities and Their Black Strings

TL;DR

This paper constructs and analyzes various matter-coupled AdS_3 supergravity models, discovering black string solutions with different supersymmetry properties and singularities, and explores their relation to string theory.

Contribution

It introduces new matter-coupled AdS_3 supergravity models with scalar multiplets and finds novel black string solutions with specific supersymmetry and singularity features.

Findings

Found half-supersymmetric black string solutions with Minkowski asymptotics.

Identified AdS_3 string solutions with naked singularities.

Established relations to known string theory solutions.

Abstract

We couple n copies of N=(2,0) scalar multiplets to a gauged N=(2,0) supergravity in 2+1 dimensions which admits AdS_3 as a vacuum. The scalar fields are charged under the gauged R-symmetry group U(1) and parametrize certain Kahler manifolds with compact or non-compact isometries. The radii of these manifolds are quantized in the compact case, but arbitrary otherwise. In the compact case, we find half-supersymmetry preserving and asymptotically Minkowskian black string solutions. For a particular value of the scalar manifold radius, the solution coincides with that of Horne and Horowitz found in the context of a string theory in 2+1 dimensions. In the non-compact case, we find half-supersymmetry preserving and asymptotically AdS_3 string solutions which have naked singularities. We also obtain two distinct AdS_3 supergravities coupled to n copies of N=(1,0) scalar multiplets either by the truncation of the (2,0) model or by a direct construction.