Black holes, black rings, and their microstates

I Bena, NP Warner - Supersymmetric Mechanics-Vol. 3: Attractors and …, 2008 - Springer
In this review article, we describe some of the recent progress towards the construction and
analysis of three-charge configurations in string theory and supergravity. We begin by …

The fuzzball proposal for black holes

K Skenderis, M Taylor - Physics Reports, 2008 - Elsevier
The fuzzball proposal states that associated with a black hole of entropy S, there are
expShorizon-free non-singular solutions that asymptotically look like the black hole but …

Primordial black holes confront LIGO/Virgo data: current situation

V De Luca, G Franciolini, P Pani… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The LIGO and Virgo Interferometers have so far provided 11 gravitational-wave
(GW) observations of black-hole binaries. Similar detections are bound to become very …

Holographic entanglement entropy from 2d CFT: heavy states and local quenches

CT Asplund, A Bernamonti, F Galli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We consider the entanglement entropy in 2d conformal field theory in a class of
excited states produced by the insertion of a heavy local operator. These include both high …

Fuzzballs and microstate geometries: black-hole structure in string theory

I Bena, EJ Martinec, SD Mathur, NP Warner - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The black-hole information paradox provides one of the sharpest foci for the conflict between
quantum mechanics and general relativity and has become the proving-ground of would-be …

Smooth horizonless geometries deep inside the black-hole regime

I Bena, S Giusto, EJ Martinec, R Russo, M Shigemori… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We construct the first family of horizonless supergravity solutions that have the same mass,
charges, and angular momenta as general supersymmetric rotating D 1-D 5-P black holes in …

Habemus Superstratum! A constructive proof of the existence of superstrata

I Bena, S Giusto, R Russo, M Shigemori… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We construct the first example of a superstratum: a class of smooth horizonless
supergravity solutions that are parameterized by arbitrary continuous functions of (at least) …

The black hole behind the cut

S Giusto, C Iossa, R Russo - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We study the analytic structure of the heavy-heavy-light-light holographic
correlators in the supergravity approximation of the AdS 3× S 3/CFT 2 duality. As an explicit …

Asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions deep inside the black-hole regime

I Bena, S Giusto, EJ Martinec, R Russo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract We construct an infinite family of smooth asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions
that have the same charges and angular momenta as general supersymmetric D1-D5-P …

Exotic branes in string theory

J de Boer, M Shigemori - Physics Reports, 2013 - Elsevier
Besides the familiar D-branes, string theory contains a vast number of other non-perturbative
objects. While a complete classification is lacking, many of these objects are related to each …