From Special Geometry to Black Hole Partition Functions
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These notes are based on lectures given at the Erwin-Schrodinger Insitut in Vienna in 2006/07 and at the 2007 School on Attractor Mechanism in Frascati. Lecture I: special geometry from the superconformal point of view. Lecture II: black hole attractor mechanism, its underlying variational principle, and black hole partition functions. Lecture III: large and small BPS black holes in N=4 supergravity. Lecture IV: state counting for N=4 string compactifications. Appendix A: special geometry from the mathematical point of view. Appendix B: review of modular forms. Contains four problems which allow the readers to develop some of the key concepts by themselves.
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