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Localizing the M-Theory Path Integral
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Florian Gaar, Jerome P. Gauntlett +2
We propose a supersymmetric localization formula for the local perturbative contribution to the M-theory path integral, reducing it to an integral over equivariant flux data. Relat…
Airy functions from quantum M-theory
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Florian Gaar, Jerome P. Gauntlett +2
We show that Airy function partition functions for M2-brane theories may be derived from relative equivariant localization of quantum M-theory. The eleven-dimensional Chern--Simons…
Odd-Dimensional Localization in Supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Florian Gaar, Jerome P. Gauntlett +2
We establish a localization principle for odd-dimensional supergravity theories containing Chern--Simons interactions. Our construction relies on combining an equivariant extension…
Probing black holes with equivariant localization
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Christopher Couzens, Alice Lüscher
We introduce equivariant localization as a method for computing the action of probe branes in supergravity backgrounds. We apply it to supersymmetric probe D3-branes in type IIB su…
Introduction to black hole thermodynamics
Pietro Benetti Genolini
These are the lecture notes for a course at the "Roberto Salmeron School in Mathematical Physics" held at the University of Brasilia in September 2025, to be published in the proce…
Equivariant localization for gauged supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Yusheng Jiao +2
We consider supersymmetric solutions of Euclidean gauged supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number of vector multiplets. We consider solutions that admit both the R-symmetr…
Equivariant localization for gauged supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Yusheng Jiao +2
We consider supersymmetric solutions of , Euclidean gauged supergravity coupled to an arbitrary number of vector multiplets. Such solutions admit an R-symmetry…
Localization and Attraction
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, Yusheng Jiao +2
We use equivariant localization to construct off-shell entropy functions for supersymmetric black holes in , gauged supergravity coupled to matter. This allows…
dS Supergravity
Dionysios Anninos, Pietro Benetti Genolini, Beatrix Mühlmann
We construct two-dimensional supergravity theories endowed with a positive cosmological constant, that admit de Sitter vacua. We consider the cases of as well as $\…
Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, James Sparks
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 chiral primary…
Equivariant localization in supergravity
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Jerome P. Gauntlett, James Sparks
We show that supersymmetric supergravity solutions with an R-symmetry Killing vector are equipped with a set of equivariantly closed forms. Various physical observables may be expr…
Magnetic charge and black hole supersymmetric quantum statistical relation
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Chiara Toldo
We study the thermodynamics in the BPS limit of AdS black holes realizing the topological twist. We use a limiting procedure that allows us to reach the extremal point along a traj…
Supersymmetric phases of AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Alejandro Cabo-Bizet, Sameer Murthy
We exhibit an infinite family of supersymmetric phases in the three-dimensional ABJM superconformal field theory and the dual asymptotically AdS gravity. They are interpreted a…
Wrapped -branes and complex saddle points
Pietro Benetti Genolini
We study the effects of the introduction of a term in minimal gauged supergravity in four dimensions. We show why this term is not present in supergravity duals of fiel…
Boundary Conditions in Topological AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Matan Grinberg, Paul Richmond
We revisit the construction in four-dimensional gauged supergravity of the holographic duals to topologically twisted three-dimensional field theories. Ou…
Instantons, Symmetries and Anomalies in Five Dimensions
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Luigi Tizzano
All five-dimensional non-abelian gauge theories have a global symmetry associated with instantonic particles. We describe an obstruction to coupling to a classica…
Evidence for a Non-Supersymmetric 5d CFT from Deformations of 5d SYM
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Masazumi Honda, Hee-Cheol Kim +2
We study supersymmetry breaking deformations of the 5d fixed point known as , the UV completion of super-Yang-Mills. The phases of the non-supersymmetr…
Topological AdS/CFT and the deformation
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Paul Richmond
In this note, we define a holographic dual to four-dimensional superconformal field theories formulated on arbitrary Riemannian manifolds equipped with a Killing vector. Moreover,…
Localization of the action in AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Juan Manuel Pérez Ipiña, James Sparks
We derive a simple formula for the action of any supersymmetric solution to minimal gauged supergravity in the AdS/CFT correspondence. Such solutions are equipped with a su…
Gravitational free energy in topological AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Paul Richmond, James Sparks
We define and study a holographic dual to the topological twist of gauge theories on Riemannian three-manifolds. The gravity duals are solutions to four-dimensional…
Topological AdS/CFT
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Paul Richmond, James Sparks
We define a holographic dual to the Donaldson-Witten topological twist of gauge theories on a Riemannian four-manifold. This is described by a class of asymptotical…
Refined 3d-3d Correspondence
Luis Fernando Alday, Pietro Benetti Genolini, Mathew Bullimore +1
We explore aspects of the correspondence between Seifert 3-manifolds and 3d supersymmetric theories with a distinguished abelian flavour symmetry. We give a prescri…
Holographic renormalization and supersymmetry
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Davide Cassani, Dario Martelli +1
Holographic renormalization is a systematic procedure for regulating divergences in observables in asymptotically locally AdS spacetimes. For dual boundary field theories which are…
The holographic supersymmetric Casimir energy
Pietro Benetti Genolini, Davide Cassani, Dario Martelli +1
We consider a general class of asymptotically locally AdS_5 solutions of minimal gauged supergravity, that are dual to superconformal field theories on curved backgrounds S^1 x M_3…