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most citedBlack hole microstates in AdS from supersymmetric localization

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hep-th2026

On M2-, M5-, and D3-branes from 12d anomalies: an equivariant perspective on duality

Kiril Hristov, Pedro Vicente Marto

We revisit the twelve-dimensional anomaly polynomial that has long been known to govern M5-brane worldvolume theories, together with its more recently proposed D3-brane counterpart…

hep-th2026

Indices of M5 and M2 branes at finite from equivariant volumes, and a new duality

Kiril Hristov

We study supersymmetric indices of the 6d theory of M5-branes on toric Sasaki-Einstein five-manifolds. Embedding the background into a local toric Calabi-Yau four-fold…

hep-th2026

partition functions and Equivariant CY/CY correspondence from Quantum curves

Kiril Hristov, Naotaka Kubo, Yi Pang

We study the perturbative large- expansion of the round three-sphere partition function in a class of M2-brane theories, including flavored SYM and ABJM theories as well as more…

hep-th2025

Holographic origin of -maximization and higher-derivative AdS/CFT

Kiril Hristov, Saurish Khandelwal, Yi Pang +1

We develop a consistent partially off-shell framework for evaluating higher-derivative actions of five-dimensional gauged supergravity with abelian vector multiplets on…

hep-th2025

M2-brane partition functions and HD supergravity from equivariant volumes

Luca Cassia, Kiril Hristov

We use the results of our companion paper arXiv:2502.20444, which explores the equivariant generalization of the constant-map contribution in topological string theory on toric Cal…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Black hole thermodynamics at 4 derivatives, natural variables and BPS limits

Kiril Hristov, Peng-Ju Hu, Yi Pang

We study Einstein-Maxwell theory in spacetime dimensions including all Lorentz-invariant parity-even four-derivative couplings. Building on the results of arXiv:2312.116…