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most citedAn extremization principle for the entropy of rotating BPS black holes in AdS

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hep-th2026

A New Entropy Puzzle in ABJM

Alexandre Belin, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Palash Singh +2

We point out a puzzle about BPS black holes in AdS: the entropy grows when increases although the number of gauge-invariant operators in the dual con…

hep-th2026

Exact Modular Completion of the ABJM Effective Twisted Superpotential

Seyed Morteza Hosseini

The effective twisted superpotential governs the supersymmetric partition functions of three-dimensional theories in the Cardy limit and, at large , the gravitat…

hep-th2023★ 5 cited

Gravitational Blocks: Symplectic Covariance Unveiled

Seyed Morteza Hosseini

By working in a symplectically covariant real formulation of special Kähler geometry, we propose and give strong evidence for a canonical BPS partition function for AdS$_2 \times_w…

hep-th2022

The large limit of topologically twisted indices: a direct approach

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni

We study the large limit of the refined topologically twisted index of three-dimensional gauge theories with a holographic dual, which is relevant for countin…

hep-th2021★ 16 cited

The joy of factorization at large : five-dimensional indices and AdS black holes

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Itamar Yaakov, Alberto Zaffaroni

We discuss the large factorization properties of five-dimensional supersymmetric partition functions for CFT with a holographic dual. We consider partition functions on manifol…

hep-th2021★ 54 cited

Rotating multi-charge spindles and their microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Alberto Zaffaroni

Some AdS 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 con…

hep-th2020★ 20 cited

4d F(4) gauged supergravity and black holes of class

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov

We perform a consistent reduction of 6d matter-coupled F(4) supergravity on a compact Riemann surface of genus , at the level of the bosonic action.…

hep-th2020★ 18 cited

Universal AdS black holes in theories with sixteen supercharges and their microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni

We provide a universal microscopic counting for the microstates of the asymptotically AdS black holes and black strings that arise as solutions of the half-maximal gauged supergrav…

hep-th2020★ 41 cited

Anomalies, Black strings and the charged Cardy formula

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Yuji Tachikawa +1

We derive the general anomaly polynomial for a class of two-dimensional CFTs arising as twisted compactifications of a higher-dimensional theory on compact manifolds $\mathcal{M}_d…

hep-th2019★ 30 cited

Supersymmetric Rényi entropy and charged hyperbolic black holes

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Chiara Toldo, Itamar Yaakov

The supersymmetric Rényi entropy across a spherical entangling surface in a -dimensional SCFT with flavor defects is equivalent to a supersymmetric partition function on $\mathb…

hep-th2019★ 76 cited

Gluing gravitational blocks for AdS black holes

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Alberto Zaffaroni

We provide a unifying entropy functional and an extremization principle for black holes and black strings in AdS and AdS with arbitrary rotation and gen…

hep-th2019★ 24 cited

Microstates of rotating AdS strings

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Alberto Zaffaroni

We provide a general formula for the refined topologically twisted index of gauge theories living on the world-volume of D3-branes at conical Calabi-Yau singulariti…

hep-th2019★ 46 cited

Geometry of -extremization and black holes microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni

The entropy of a class of asymptotically AdS magnetically charged BPS black holes can be obtained by extremizing the topologically twisted index of the dual three-dimensional f…

hep-th2019★ 32 cited

Black hole microstate counting in Type IIB from 5d SCFTs

Martin Fluder, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Christoph F. Uhlemann

We use recently established AdS/CFT dualities to count the microstates of magnetically charged AdS black holes in Type IIB. The near-horizon limit i…

hep-th2019★ 34 cited

Proving the equivalence of -extremization and its gravitational dual for all toric quivers

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Alberto Zaffaroni

The gravitational dual of -extremization for a class of two-dimensional theories obtained by twisted compactifications of D3-brane gauge theories living at a toric Calab…

physics.gen-ph2018

Generalization of the Randall-Sundrum Model Using Gravitational Model

S. Davood Sadatian, S. M. Hosseini

In this letter, we explore a generalized model based on two scenarios including the Randall-Sundrum model and Gravity model . We first study the standard Randall-Sundrum Gr…

hep-th2018★ 45 cited

6D attractors and black hole microstates

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Achilleas Passias +1

We find a family of AdS supersymmetric solutions of the six-dimensional gauged supergravity coupled to one vector multiplet that arises as a…

hep-th2018★ 74 cited

Topologically twisted indices in five dimensions and holography

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Itamar Yaakov, Alberto Zaffaroni

We provide a formula for the partition function of five-dimensional gauge theories on , topologically twisted along in the…

hep-th2018★ 51 cited

A note on the entropy of rotating BPS AdS black holes

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Alberto Zaffaroni

In this note we show that the entropy of BPS, rotating, electrically charged AdS black holes can be obtained by an extremization principle involving a particular com…

hep-th2018★ 13 cited

Black hole microstates and supersymmetric localization

Seyed Morteza Hosseini

This thesis focuses mainly on understanding the origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for a class of four- and five-dimensional BPS black holes in string/M-theory. To this aim,…

math.CO2017

More on the Annihilator-Ideal Graph of a Commutative Ring

M. J. Nikmehr, S. M. Hosseini

Let be a commutative ring with identity and be the set of ideals of with non-zero annihilator. The annihilator-ideal graph of , denoted by , is…

hep-th2017★ 87 cited

Holographic microstate counting for AdS black holes in massive IIA supergravity

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Achilleas Passias

We derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy for a class of BPS black holes in the massive type IIA supergravity background AdS from a microscopic counting of supersymme…

hep-th2017★ 154 cited

An extremization principle for the entropy of rotating BPS black holes in AdS

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Kiril Hristov, Alberto Zaffaroni

We show that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a class of BPS electrically charged rotating black holes in AdS can be obtained by a simple extremization principle. We…

hep-th2016★ 58 cited

The Cardy limit of the topologically twisted index and black strings in AdS

Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Anton Nedelin, Alberto Zaffaroni

We evaluate the topologically twisted index of a general four-dimensional gauge theory in the "high-temperature" limit. The index is the partition function for $\…