We present a pedagogical overview of flux compactifications in string theory, from the basic
ideas to the most recent developments. We concentrate on closed-string fluxes in type-II …

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String theory is one of the most exciting and challenging areas of modern theoretical
physics. This book guides the reader from the basics of string theory to recent developments …

We investigate the embedding of brane inflation into stable compactifications of string
theory. At first sight a warped compactification geometry seems to produce a naturally flat …

We consider all 1/2 BPS excitations of AdS× S configurations in both type-IIB string theory
and M-theory. In the dual field theories these excitations are described by free fermions …

We find the gravity dual of a marginal deformation of Script N= 4 super Yang Mills, and
discuss some of its properties. This deformation is intimately connected with an SL (2, Bbb …

We describe a technique which enables one to quickly compute an infinite number of toric
geometries and their dual quiver gauge theories. The central object in this construction is …

We study a variational problem whose critical point determines the Reeb vector field for a
Sasaki–Einstein manifold. This extends our previous work on Sasakian geometry by lifting …

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 …

We provide a general set of rules for extracting the data defining a quiver gauge theory from
a given toric Calabi-Yau singularity. Our method combines information from the geometry …