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How do black holes predict the sign of the Fourier coefficients of siegel modular forms?

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Single centered supersymmetric black holes in four dimensions have spherically symmetric horizon and hence carry zero angular momentum. This leads to a specific sign of the helicity trace index associated with these black holes. Since the latter are given by the Fourier expansion coefficients of appropriate meromorphic modular forms of \({Sp(2,{\mathbb{Z}})}\) or its subgroup, we are led to a specific prediction for the signs of a subset of these Fourier coefficients which represent contributions from single centered black holes only. We explicitly test these predictions for the modular forms which compute the index of quarter BPS black holes in heterotic string theory on T 6, as well as in \({{\mathbb{Z}}_N}\) CHL models for N = 2, 3, 5, 7.

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Sen, A. How do black holes predict the sign of the Fourier coefficients of siegel modular forms?. Gen Relativ Gravit 43, 2171–2183 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10714-011-1175-9

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