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We study the central charges and levels of 2d \( \mathcal{N} \) = (0, 4) superconformal field theories that are dual to four- and five-dimensional BPS black holes in compactifications of type IIB string theory on a K3 surface. They arise from wrapping a D3-brane on a curve C inside K3 and have transverse space either an ALE or ALF space. These D3-branes have an AdS3 × S3/Γ near horizon geometry where Γ is a discrete subgroup of SU(2). We compute the central charges and levels of the 2d SCFTs both in the microscopic picture and from six-dimensional \( \mathcal{N} \) = (2, 0) supergravity. These quantities determine the black hole entropy via Cardy’s formula. We find agreement between the microscopic and macroscopic computations. The contributions from one-loop quantum corrections to the macroscopic result are crucial for this matching.
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Couzens, C., het Lam, H., Mayer, K. et al. Black holes and (0,4) SCFTs from type IIB on K3. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 43 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2019)043
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