Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of supersymmetric AdS5 black holes

A Cabo-Bizet, D Cassani, D Martelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
We present a holographic derivation of the entropy of supersymmetric asymptotically AdS 5
black holes. We define a BPS limit of black hole thermodynamics by first focussing on a …

Lectures on constructing string vacua

F Denef - Les Houches, 2008 - Elsevier
The real world as we know it happens at energies well below the Planck scale, so it is very
well described by effective field theory. There is a continuous infinity of consistent effective …

Counting BPS operators in gauge theories: quivers, syzygies and plethystics

S Benvenuti, B Feng, A Hanany… - Journal of High Energy …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a systematic and efficient method of counting single-trace and multi-trace BPS
operators with two supercharges, for world-volume gauge theories of N D-brane probes for …

Entropy functions for accelerating black holes

A Boido, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli, J Sparks - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce an entropy function for supersymmetric accelerating black holes in four-
dimensional anti–de Sitter space that uplift on general Sasaki-Einstein manifolds X 7 to …

M5-branes wrapped on a spindle

P Ferrero, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We construct supersymmetric AdS 5× Σ solutions of D= 7 gauged supergravity,
where Σ is a two-dimensional orbifold known as a spindle. These uplift on S 4 to solutions of …

Microstates of Accelerating and Supersymmetric Black Holes from the Spindle Index

E Colombo, SM Hosseini, D Martelli, A Pittelli… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
We provide a first principles derivation of the microscopic entropy of a very general class of
supersymmetric, rotating, and accelerating black holes in AdS 4. This is achieved by …

Equivariant localization in supergravity

PB Genolini, JP Gauntlett, J Sparks - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We show that supersymmetric supergravity solutions with an R-symmetry Killing vector are
equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. Various physical observables may be …

Contact terms, unitarity, and F-maximization in three-dimensional superconformal theories

C Closset, TT Dumitrescu, G Festuccia… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
A bstract We consider three-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) superconformal field theories on
a threesphere and analyze their free energy F as a function of background gauge and …

Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT

PB Genolini, JP Gauntlett, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We explain how equivariant localization may be applied to AdS/CFT to compute
various BPS observables in gravity, such as central charges and conformal dimensions of …

Counting gauge invariants: The Plethystic program

B Feng, A Hanany, YH He - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose a programme for systematically counting the single and multi-trace gauge
invariant operators of a gauge theory. Key to this is the plethystic function. We expound in …