Entropy functions for accelerating black holes

A Boido, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli, J Sparks - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce an entropy function for supersymmetric accelerating black holes in four-
dimensional anti–de Sitter space that uplift on general Sasaki-Einstein manifolds X 7 to …

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 …

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 …

Classification, geometry and applications of supersymmetric backgrounds

U Gran, J Gutowski, G Papadopoulos - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
We review the remarkable progress that has been made the last 15 years towards the
classification of supersymmetric solutions with emphasis on the description of the bilinears …

A universal counting of black hole microstates in AdS4

F Azzurli, N Bobev, PM Crichigno, VS Min… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Springer
A bstract Many three-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 2\) SCFTs admit a universal partial
topological twist when placed on hyperbolic Riemann surfaces. We exploit this fact to derive …

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 …

M2-branes on discs and multi-charged spindles

C Couzens, K Stemerdink… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study supersymmetric AdS 2× Y 9 solutions of 11d supergravity where Y 9 is an
S 7 fibration over a Riemann surface equipped with a metric of non-constant curvature. We …

A tale of (M) 2 twists

C Couzens - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We study the parameter space of magnetically charged AdS 2×\({\mathbbm {WCP}}
_ {\left [{n} _ {-}{n} _ {+}\right]}^ 1\) solutions in 4d U (1) 4 gauged STU supergravity. We show …

Two-dimensional SCFTs from D3-branes

F Benini, N Bobev, PM Crichigno - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We find a large class of two-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)=(0, 2) SCFTs obtained by
compactifying four-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}\)= 1 quiver gauge theories on a Riemann …

A geometric dual of c-extremization

C Couzens, JP Gauntlett, D Martelli… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We consider supersymmetric AdS 3× Y 7 and AdS 2× Y 9 solutions of type IIB and
D= 11 supergravity, respectively, that are holographically dual to SCFTs with (0, 2) …