Black hole microstates in AdS4 from supersymmetric localization

F Benini, K Hristov, A Zaffaroni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract This paper addresses a long standing problem, the counting of the microstates of
supersymmetric asymptotically AdS black holes in terms of a holographically dual field …

D3-branes wrapped on a spindle

P Ferrero, JP Gauntlett, JMP Ipiña, D Martelli… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We construct supersymmetric AdS 3× Σ solutions of minimal gauged supergravity in D= 5,
where Σ is a two-dimensional orbifold known as a spindle. Remarkably, these uplift on S 5 …

Holography and the KKLT scenario

S Lüst, C Vafa, M Wiesner, K Xu - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract The KKLT scenario, one of the few ideas to realize dS vacua in string theory,
consists of two steps: the first involves the construction of a supersymmetric AdS vacuum …

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 …

Two-dimensional SCFTs from wrapped branes and c-extremization

F Benini, N Bobev - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We apply c-extremization [1], whose proof we review in full detail, to study
twodimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)=(0, 2) superconformal field theories arising from the low …

AdS3 solutions in massive IIA with small = (4, 0) supersymmetry

Y Lozano, NT Macpherson, C Nunez… - Journal of High Energy …, 2020 - Springer
A bstract We study AdS 3 x S 2 solutions in massive IIA that preserve small\(\mathcal
{N}\)=(4, 0) supersymmetry in terms of an SU (2)-structure on the remaining internal space …

= (2, 2) AdS3 from D3-branes wrapped on Riemann surfaces

C Couzens, NT Macpherson, A Passias - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We construct\(\mathcal {N}\)=(2, 2) supersymmetric AdS 3 solutions of type IIB
supergravity, dual to twisted compactifications of 4d\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 super-Yang-Mills on …

Gravitational blocks, spindles and GK geometry

A Boido, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli, J Sparks - … in Mathematical Physics, 2023 - Springer
We derive a gravitational block formula for the supersymmetric action for a general class of
supersymmetric AdS solutions, described by GK geometry. Extremal points of this action …

Brane effective actions, kappa-symmetry and applications

J Simón - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2012 - Springer
This is a review on brane effective actions, their symmetries and some of their applications.
Its first part covers the Green-Schwarz formulation of single M-and D-brane effective actions …

F-theory and AdS3/CFT2

C Couzens, C Lawrie, D Martelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We construct supersymmetric AdS 3 solutions in F-theory, that is Type IIB
supergravity with varying axio-dilaton, which are holographically dual to 2d\(\mathcal …