Fortuity in the D1-D5 system
Chi-Ming Chang, Ying-Hsuan Lin, Haoyu Zhang
Published: 2025/1/9
Abstract
We reformulate the lifting problem in the D1-D5 CFT as a supercharge cohomology problem, and enumerate BPS states according to the fortuitous/monotone classification. Focusing on the deformed $T^4$ symmetric orbifold theory, cohomology classes in the $N=2$ theory are explicitly constructed and matched with the exact BPS partition function. For general $N$, an infinite set of monotone cohomology classes are characterized and conjectured to be exhaustive. We further describe how to assemble BPS states at smaller $N$ into BPS states at larger $N$, and interpret their holographic duals as black hole bound states and massive stringy excitations on smooth horizonless (e.g. Lunin-Mathur) geometries.