Geometry of non-supersymmetric three-charge bound states

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We study the smooth non-supersymmetric three-charge microstates of Jejjala, Madden, Ross and Titchener [hep-th/0504181] using Kaluza-Klein reductions of the solutions to five and four dimensions.

• Our aim is to improve our understanding of the relation between these non-supersymmetric solutions and the well-studied supersymmetric cases.
• We find some surprising qualitative differences.
• In the five-dimensional description, the solution has orbifold fixed points which break supersymmetry locally, so the geometries cannot be thought of as made up of separate half-BPS centers.