Supermembranes on black holes

We report a new family of supermembrane vacua possesing the Siegel symmetry. This family consists of bosonic solutions of supermembrane field equations and describes static, toroidal membranes in d=11 black hole spacetimes. The black holes we consider are obtained by embedding the d=4 Reissner-Nordström solutions into d=11, N=1 supergravity. We show that supermembranes pick, as their backgrounds, only the extreme Reissner-Nordström black holes and require the d=4 magnetic charge to be non-zero. Moreover, the membranes on dyonic holes can be interpreted, at the linearized level, as fluctuations of the membranes on magnetically charged holes. The quantisation around the toroidal membranes on the magnetically charged, extreme black holes therefore poses itself as an interesting problem.