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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…
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…
The M2-M5 Mohawk
Iosif Bena, Soumangsu Chakraborty, Dimitrios Toulikas +1
We show that the near-brane back-reaction of M2 branes ending on M5 branes has a rich "spike structure" that is determined by partitioning the numbers of M2 branes that are termina…
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…
Maze Topiary in Supergravity
Iosif Bena, Anthony Houppe, Dimitrios Toulikas +1
We show that the supergravity solutions for 1/4-BPS intersecting systems of M2 and M5 branes are completely characterized by a single ``maze'' function that satisfies a non-linear…
Themelia: the irreducible microstructure of black holes
Iosif Bena, Nejc Čeplak, Shaun D. Hampton +3
We argue that the fundamental "atomic objects" in string theory are themelia: extended objects that have 16 supersymmetries locally. We show that all existing smooth horizonless mi…
Smearing and Unsmearing KKLT AdS Vacua
Mariana Graña, Nicolas Kovensky, Dimitrios Toulikas
Gaugino condensation on D-branes wrapping internal cycles gives a mechanism to stabilize the associated moduli. According to the effective field theory, this gives rise, when combi…
The (amazing) Super-Maze
Iosif Bena, Shaun D. Hampton, Anthony Houppe +2
The entropy of the three-charge NS5-F1-P black hole in Type IIA string theory comes from the breaking of F1 strings into little strings, which become independent mo…
Bare-Bones de Sitter
Iosif Bena, Emilian Dudas, Mariana Graña +2
We compute the supersymmetry-breaking three-form fluxes generated by the addition of anti-D3 branes at the tip of a Klebanov-Strassler throat. These fluxes give rise to nontrivial…
Resolving Black-Hole Microstructure with New Momentum Carriers
Iosif Bena, Nejc Ceplak, Shaun Hampton +3
All known horizonless black-hole microstate geometries correspond to brane sources that acquire a finite size, and hence break the spherical symmetry of the black hole. We construc…