Blackening S-folds (2407.11593v2)

Abstract: We construct the universal AdS${4}$ black hole that asymptotes to the $(\varphi,\chi)$-family of type IIB S-fold backgrounds dual to the conformal manifold of $\mathcal{N}=2$ S-fold CFT's. We present the explicit type IIB embedding of such a universal black hole for two particular asymptotics: the $\,\mathcal{N}=2\,$ S-fold with $\,\textrm{U}(2)\,$ symmetry at $\,(\varphi,\chi)=(0,0)\,$ and the $\,\mathcal{N}=4\,$ S-fold with $\,\textrm{SO}(4)\,$ symmetry at $\,(\varphi,\chi)=(1,0)$. As a byproduct, we also present a novel $1/16$-BPS two-parameter family of $\,\textrm{AdS}{2} \times \textrm{M}{8}\,$ S-fold backgrounds with $\,\textrm{M}{8}=\mathbb{H}^{2} \times \textrm{S}^{5} \times \textrm{S}^{1}$ that features a parametrically-controlled scale separation.