[HTML][HTML] AdS black holes, holography and localization

A Zaffaroni - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
I review some recent progresses in counting the number of microstates of AdS
supersymmetric black holes in dimension equal or greater than four using holography. The …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetry TFTs from string theory

F Apruzzi, F Bonetti, I García Etxebarria… - … in mathematical physics, 2023 - Springer
We determine the d+ 1 dimensional topological field theory, which encodes the higher-form
symmetries and their't Hooft anomalies for d-dimensional QFTs obtained by compactifying M …

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 …

Rotating multi-charge spindles and their microstates

SM Hosseini, K Hristov, A Zaffaroni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract Some AdS 3× M 7 type IIB vacua have been recently proposed to arise from D3-
branes wrapped on a spindle, a sphere with conical singularities at the poles. We explicitly …

M5-branes wrapped on a spindle

P Ferrero, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy …, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We construct supersymmetric AdS 5× Σ solutions of D= 7 gauged supergravity,
where Σ is a two-dimensional orbifold known as a spindle. These uplift on S 4 to solutions of …

Twisted D3-brane and M5-brane compactifications from multi-charge spindles

A Boido, JMP Ipiña, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We construct families of supersymmetric AdS 3× Y 7 and AdS 3× Y 8 solutions to
type IIB string theory and M-theory, respectively. Here Y 7 is an S 5 fibration over Σ, while Y 8 …

Spindle black holes in AdS4× SE7

K Hristov, M Suh - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2023 - Springer
A bstract We construct new classes of supersymmetric AdS 2× Σ solutions of 4d gauged
supergravity in presence of charged hypermultiplet scalars, with Σ the complex weighted …

[HTML][HTML] Branes wrapped on orbifolds and their gravitational blocks

F Faedo, A Fontanarossa, D Martelli - Letters in Mathematical Physics, 2023 - Springer
We construct new supersymmetric AdS 2× M 4 solutions of D= 6 gauged supergravity, where
M 4 are certain four-dimensional orbifolds. After uplifting to massive type IIA supergravity …

Equivariant volume extremization and holography

E Colombo, F Faedo, D Martelli, A Zaffaroni - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In a previous paper two of us (DM and AZ) proposed that a vast class of
gravitational extremization problems in holography can be formulated in terms of the …

M5-brane sources, holography, and Argyres-Douglas theories

I Bah, F Bonetti, R Minasian, E Nardoni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2021 - Springer
A bstract We initiate a study of the holographic duals of a class of four-dimensional\(\mathcal
{N}\)= 2 superconformal field theories that are engineered by wrapping M5-branes on a …