Black Hole Entropy from Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

We provide evidence for a holographic duality between superconformal quantum mechanics on the moduli space of Yang-Mills instantons and M-theory in certain asymptotically $\text{AdS}_7\times S^4$ backgrounds with a plane-wave boundary metric. We show that the gravitational background admits a supersymmetric black hole solution whose entropy is precisely reproduced by the superconformal index of the dual quantum mechanics.

Rishi Mouland

Research Associate in High Energy Theoretical Physics

My research interests include string theory, M-theory and conformal field theory