Black hole attractors and U(1) Fayet-Iliopoulos gaugings: analysis and classification

Abstract

Abstract We classify the critical points of the effective black hole potential which governs the attractor mechanism taking place at the horizon of static dyonic extremal black holes in $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 2, D = 4 Maxwell-Einstein supergravity with U(1) Fayet-Iliopoulos gaugings. We use a manifestly symplectic covariant formalism, and we consider both spherical and hyperbolic horizons, recognizing the relevant sub-classes to which some representative examples belong. We also exploit projective special Kähler geometry of vector multiplets scalar manifolds, the U-duality-invariant quartic structure (and 2-polarizations thereof) in order to retrieve and generalize various expressions of the entropy of asymptotically AdS4 BPS black holes, in the cases in which the scalar manifolds are symmetric spaces. Finally, we present a novel static extremal black hole solution to the STU model, in which the dilaton interpolates between an hyperbolic near-horizon geometry and AdS4 at infinity.