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 …

The tadpole problem

I Bena, J Blåbäck, M Graña, S Lüst - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We examine the mechanism of moduli stabilization by fluxes in the limit of a large
number of moduli. We conjecture that one cannot stabilize all complex-structure moduli in F …

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 …

Entanglement between two disjoint universes

V Balasubramanian, A Kar, T Ugajin - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We use the replica method to compute the entanglement entropy of a universe
without gravity entangled in a thermofield-double-like state with a disjoint gravitating …

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 …

Split states, entropy enigmas, holes and halos

F Denef, GW Moore - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2011 - Springer
A bstract We investigate degeneracies of BPS states of D-branes on compact Calabi-Yau
manifolds. We develop a factorization formula for BPS indices using attractor flow trees …

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) …

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 …

Gravitational footprints of black holes and their microstate geometries

I Bah, I Bena, P Heidmann, Y Li… - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We construct a family of non-supersymmetric extremal black holes and their
horizonless microstate geometries in four dimensions. The black holes can have finite …