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 …

This review article provides a pedagogical introduction into various classes of chiral string
compactifications to four dimensions with D-branes and fluxes. The main concern is to …

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 …

All purely bosonic supersymmetric solutions of minimal supergravity in five dimensions are
classified. The solutions preserve either one half or all of the supersymmetry. Explicit …

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 …

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 …

The complete Type IIB supergravity solutions with 16 supersymmetries are obtained on the
manifold AdS 4× S 2× S 2× Σ with SO (2, 3)× SO (3)× SO (3) symmetry in terms of two …

We analyze the necessary and sufficient conditions for the preservation of supersymmetry
for bosonic geometries of the form R 1, 9− d× M d, in the common Neveu-Schwarz–Neveu …

We analyse the most general supersymmetric solutions of D= 11 supergravity consisting of a
warped product of five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space with a six-dimensional Riemannian …

We propose a way to classify the local form of all bosonic supersymmetric configurations of
D= 11 supergravity, using the differential forms that can be constructed as bi-linears from the …