collaborators

8 papers

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

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-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

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

Constant maps in equivariant topological strings and geometric modeling of fluxes

Luca Cassia, Kiril Hristov

We study the equivariant generalization of topological strings on toric manifolds, focusing in particular on defining the contributions of constant maps in the genus expansion of t…

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…