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hep-th2026

The Resolved Elliptic Genus and the D1-D5 CFT

Marcel R. R. Hughes, Masaki Shigemori

This paper is a follow-up to the short paper arXiv:2509.19425, greatly expanding the discussion with examples and providing derivations and justifications of results presented ther…

hep-th2025

Black Hole Entropy from String Entanglement

Soichiro Mori, Tadakatsu Sakai, Masaki Shigemori

We discuss the notion of string entanglement in string theory, which aims to study entanglement between worldsheet Hilbert spaces rather than entanglement between spacetime Hilbert…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

A New Supersymmetry Index for the D1-D5 CFT

Marcel R. R. Hughes, Masaki Shigemori

We propose a new supersymmetry index for the D1-D5 CFT for , relevant to the AdS/CFT correspondence. In a novel formulation of symmetric orbifold CFTs based on the Sch…

hep-th2024

Conformal field theory on -deformed space and correlators from dynamical coordinate transformations

Shinji Hirano, Masaki Shigemori

We study the map between two descriptions of the deformation of conformal field theory (CFT): One is the defining description as a deformation of CFT by the -o…

hep-th2023

Exact Non-Abelian Supertubes

Ryo Nemoto, Masaki Shigemori

Supertubes are supersymmetric configurations in string theory in which branes are extending along a closed curve. For a supertube of codimension two, its dipole charge is character…

hep-th2022★ 4 cited

Superstrata on Orbifolded Backgrounds

Masaki Shigemori

Some microstates of the Strominger-Vafa black hole are represented by smooth horizonless geometries called superstrata. The standard superstrata are deformations of ${\rm AdS}_3\ti…

hep-th2021★ 4 cited

Interpolating between multi-center microstate geometries

Masaki Shigemori

We study interpolation between two multi-center microstate geometries in 4d/5d that represent Lunin-Mathur geometries with circular profiles. The interpolating solution is a Lunin-…

hep-th2020★ 25 cited

Deformation of Stress-Tensor Correlators from Random Geometry

Shinji Hirano, Tatsuki Nakajima, Masaki Shigemori

We study stress-tensor correlators in the -deformed conformal field theories in two dimensions. Using the random geometry approach to the deformation, we devel…

hep-th2019★ 32 cited

Counting Superstrata

Masaki Shigemori

We count the number of regular supersymmetric solutions in supergravity, called superstrata, that represent non-linear completion of linear fluctuations around empty AdS_3 x S^3. T…

hep-th2017★ 116 cited

Asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions deep inside the black-hole regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec +4

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 black holes, b…

hep-th2017★ 6 cited

Non-Abelian Supertubes

Jose J. Fernandez-Melgarejo, Minkyu Park, Masaki Shigemori

A supertube is a supersymmetric configuration in string theory which occurs when a pair of branes spontaneously polarizes and generates a new dipole charge extended along a closed…

hep-th2016★ 189 cited

Smooth horizonless geometries deep inside the black-hole regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec +4

We construct the first family of horizonless supergravity solutions that have the same mass, charges and angular momenta as general supersymmetric rotating D1-D5-P black holes in f…

hep-th2015★ 8 cited

Codimension-2 Solutions in Five-Dimensional Supergravity

Minkyu Park, Masaki Shigemori

We study a new class of supersymmetric solutions in five-dimensional supergravity representing multi-center configurations of codimension-2 branes along arbitrary curves. Codimensi…

hep-th2015★ 8 cited

ABJ Theory in the Higher Spin Limit

Shinji Hirano, Masazumi Honda, Kazumi Okuyama +1

We study the conjecture made by Chang, Minwalla, Sharma, and Yin on the duality between the N=6 Vasiliev higher spin theory on AdS_4 and the N=6 Chern-Simons-matter theory, so-call…

hep-th2014★ 48 cited

Black-Hole Entropy from Supergravity Superstrata States

Iosif Bena, Masaki Shigemori, Nicholas P. Warner

There are, by now, several arguments that superstrata, which represent D1-D5-P bound states that depend upon arbitrary functions of two variables and that preserve four supersymmet…

hep-th2014★ 17 cited

ABJ Wilson loops and Seiberg Duality

Shinji Hirano, Keita Nii, Masaki Shigemori

We study supersymmetric Wilson loops in the supersymmetric Chern-Simons-matter (CSM) theory, the ABJ theory, at finite , and…

hep-th2014★ 10 cited

Classifying Supersymmetric Solutions in 3D Maximal Supergravity

Jan de Boer, Daniel R. Mayerson, Masaki Shigemori

String theory contains various extended objects. Among those, objects of codimension two (such as the D7-brane) are particularly interesting. Codimension two objects carry non-Abel…

hep-th2013★ 27 cited

Perturbative 3-charge microstate geometries in six dimensions

Masaki Shigemori

We construct a set of supersymmetric geometries that represent regular microstates of the D1-D5-P 3-charge system, using the solution generating technique of hep-th/0311092. These…

hep-th2013★ 59 cited

The Partition Function of ABJ Theory

Hidetoshi Awata, Shinji Hirano, Masaki Shigemori

We study the partition function of the N=6 supersymmetric U(N_1)_k x U(N_2)_{-k} Chern-Simons-matter (CSM) theory, also known as the ABJ theory. For this purpose, we first compute…

hep-th2012★ 141 cited

Exotic Branes in String Theory

Jan de Boer, Masaki Shigemori

Besides the familiar D-branes, string theory contains a vast number of other non-perturbative objects. While a complete classification is lacking, many of these objects are related…

hep-th2011★ 84 cited

Supersymmetric Solutions in Six Dimensions: A Linear Structure

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Masaki Shigemori +1

The equations underlying all supersymmetric solutions of six-dimensional minimal ungauged supergravity coupled to an anti-self-dual tensor multiplet have been known for quite a whi…

hep-th2011★ 69 cited

Double, Double Supertube Bubble

Iosif Bena, Jan de Boer, Masaki Shigemori +1

We argue that there exists a new class of completely smooth 1/8-BPS, three-charge bound state configurations that depend upon arbitrary functions of two variables. These configurat…

hep-th2011★ 280 cited

Holographic Thermalization

Vijay Balasubramanian, Alice Bernamonti, Jan de Boer +7

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we probe the scale-dependence of thermalization in strongly coupled field theories following a quench, via calculations of two-point functions, Wi…

hep-th2010★ 137 cited

Exotic branes and non-geometric backgrounds

Jan de Boer, Masaki Shigemori

When string/M-theory is compactified to lower dimensions, the U-duality symmetry predicts so-called exotic branes whose higher dimensional origin cannot be explained by the standar…