Black Holes and Fourfolds

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We establish the relation between the structure governing supersymmetric and non-supersymmetric four- and five-dimensional black holes and multicenter solutions and Calabi-Yau flux compactifications of M-theory and type IIB string theory.

• We find that the known BPS and almost-BPS multicenter black hole solutions can be interpreted as GKP compactifications with (2,1) and (0,3) imaginary self-dual flux.
• We also show that the most general GKP compactification leads to new classes of BPS and non-BPS multicenter solutions.
• We explore how these solutions fit into N=2 truncations, and elucidate how supersymmetry becomes camouflaged.