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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 AdS7 × S4 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.
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Dorey, N., Mouland, R. & Zhao, B. Black hole entropy from quantum mechanics. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 166 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2023)166
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