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hep-th2026

A Tale of Two Hartle-Hawking Wave Functions: Fully Gravitational vs Partially Frozen

Galit Anikeeva, Raphaël Dulac, Zixia Wei +1

We revisit the Hartle-Hawking wave function in AdS spacetime, where natural spatial slices are open and require an additional spacetime boundary. This leads to two constructions: a…

hep-th2026

Zooming out of AdSSS: The Branes behind the CFT's

Iosif Bena, Antoine Bourget, Raphaël Dulac +2

We reveal the supersymmetric brane configurations that give rise to AdSSS supergravity solutions, which are holographic duals to three-dimensional CFT…

hep-th2025

No boundary density matrix in elliptic de Sitter dS/

Raphaël Dulac, Zixia Wei

Elliptic de Sitter (dS) spacetime dS is a non-time-orientable spacetime obtained by imposing an antipodal identification to global dS. Unlike QFT on global dS, whose…

hep-th2025

Effervescent Spikes in M-theory

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac, Dimitrios Toulikas +1

AdS S S solutions warped over a Riemann surface, , are indexed by a parameter, , that defines the superconformal algebra, $D(2,1; γ) \oplus D(2,1; γ…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Effective Microstructure

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac, Emil J. Martinec +3

In AdS/CFT duality, there are large families of smooth, horizonless microstate geometries that correspond to heavy pure states of the dual CFT. The metric and fluxes are co…

hep-th2025

The local supersymmetries of a stack of branes

Raphaël Dulac, Yixuan Li

Local supersymmetries have been a guiding principle to construct smooth horizonless supergravity solutions. By computing brane densities from the brane low-energy effective action,…

hep-th2024

Localized Black Holes in AdS: What Happens Below c/12 Stays Below c/12

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac, Pierre Heidmann +1

We construct asymptotically AdSST black holes that are localized on the S and co-exist with the BTZ black hole at small positive energies. These black…

hep-th2024

On the supersymmetries of branes with fluxes

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac

The Dirac-Born-Infled action that describes the dynamics of D branes also allows one to compute the supersymmetries they preserve using the Kappa-symmetry projector. The ''Lagrangi…

hep-th2024

Waves on Mazes

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac, Anthony Houppe +2

One way to describe the entropy of black holes comes from partitioning momentum charge across fractionated intersecting brane systems. Here we construct -BPS solutions…

hep-th2024

Building the Blocks of Schwarzschild

Raphaël Dulac, Pierre Heidmann

We demonstrate that the Schwarzschild black hole can be ``resolved'' into bound states of Reissner-Nordström black holes in four dimensions. These bound states closely resemble the…

hep-th2023

Born-Infeld Supermaze Waves

Iosif Bena, Raphaël Dulac

The entropy of the supersymmetric D2-D4-P black hole comes at weak coupling from D2-brane strips stretched between parallel D4 branes and carrying momentum waves. We use the DBI ac…