On supersymmetric multipole ratios

Four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes are static and so have all vanishing multipoles (except the mass monopole). Nevertheless, it is possible to define finite multipole ratios for these black holes, by taking the ratio of (finite) multipoles of supersymmetric multicentered geometries and then taking the black hole scaling limit of the multipole ratios within these geometries. An alternative way to calculate these multipole ratios is to deform the supersymmetric black hole slightly into a non-extremal, rotating black hole, calculate the multipole ratios of this altered black hole, and then take the supersymmetric limit of the ratios. Bena and Mayerson observed that for a class of microstate geometries, these two a priori completely different methods give spectacular agreement for the resulting supersymmetric black hole multipole ratios. They conjectured that this agreement is due to the smallness of the entropy parameter for these black holes. We correct this conjecture and give strong evidence supporting a more refined conjecture, which is that the agreement of multipole ratios as calculated with these two different methods is due to both the microstate geometry and its corresponding black hole having a property we call large dipole, which can be interpreted as their center of mass being far away from its apparent center.

Automated summary

Four-dimensional supersymmetric black holes have vanishing multipoles, but finite multipole ratios can be defined through various methods. Bena and Mayerson discovered an agreement between two methods of calculating the multipole ratios, which is attributed to the smallness of the entropy parameter for these black holes. However, a refined conjecture suggests that both the microstate geometry and its corresponding black hole have a property called large dipole, indicating a faraway center of mass.