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 article reviews the role of hidden symmetries of dynamics in the study of physical
systems, from the basic concepts of symmetries in phase space to the forefront of current …

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 construct a few euclidean supergravity solutions with multiple boundaries. We consider
examples where the corresponding boundary field theory is well defined on each boundary …

We show that generalised geometry gives a unified description of bosonic eleven-
dimensional supergravity restricted to a d-dimensional manifold for all d≤ 7. The theory is …

Supersymmetric, asymptotically AdS 5, black hole solutions of five dimensional gauged
supergravity coupled to arbitrarily many abelian vector multiplets are presented. The general …

A bstract We reformulate eleven-dimensional supergravity, including fermions, in terms of
generalised geometry, for spacetimes that are warped products of Minkowski space with a d …

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 …

A bstract We engineer a large new set of four-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 1\) superconformal
field theories by wrapping M5-branes on complex curves. We present new supersymmetric …

The first examples of supersymmetric, asymptotically AdS 5, black hole solutions are
presented. They form a 1-parameter family of solutions of minimal five-dimensional gauged …