Lectures on Microstate Geometries

Understand

These are notes for some introductory lectures about microstate geometries and their construction.

• The first lecture considers BPS black holes in four dimensions as a way to introduce what one should expect from the BPS equations.
• The second lecture discusses the "no solitons without topology" theorem.
• The subsequent lectures move on to the construction and properties of bubbled microstate geometries in five dimensions.