Black Holes as Probes of Moduli Space Geometry

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We argue that supersymmetric BPS states can act as efficient finite energy probes of the moduli space geometry thanks to the attractor mechanism.

• We focus on 4d $\mathcal{N}=2$ compactifications and capture aspects of the effective field theory near the attractor values in terms of physical quantities far away in moduli space.
• Furthermore, we illustrate how the standard distance in moduli space can be related asymptotically to the black hole mass.
• We also compute a measure of the resolution with which BPS black holes of a given mass can distinguish far away points in the moduli space.