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hep-th2025

Holographic correlators from multi-mode AdS bubbling geometries

David Turton, Alexander Tyukov

Supergravity calculations of holographic four-point correlation functions are a powerful tool for deriving dynamical information about the dual field theory at strong coupling. Rec…

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★ 1 cited

Cogito, ergo - strings: Supersymmetric ergoregions and their stringy excitations

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

Supergravity solutions describing supersymmetric rotating bound states of NS fivebranes, fundamental strings and momentum can sometimes have an ergoregion but no horizon. In such s…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Precision holography of AdS bubbling geometries

David Turton, Alexander Tyukov

Holographic duality provides a microscopic interpretation of asymptotically Anti-de Sitter supergravity solutions. The dual states of the field theory give rise to expectation valu…

hep-th2024★ 5 cited

Four-point correlators in N=4 SYM from AdS bubbling geometries

David Turton, Alexander Tyukov

Four-point correlation functions are observables of significant interest in holographic field theories. We compute an infinite family of four-point correlation functions of operato…

hep-th2022★ 1 cited

Evolutionary algorithms for multi-center solutions

Sami Rawash, David Turton

Large classes of multi-center supergravity solutions have been constructed in the study of supersymmetric black holes and their microstates. Many smooth multi-center solutions have…

hep-th2022★ 28 cited

On the BPS sector in AdS_3/CFT_2 Holography

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

The BPS sector in AdS_3/CFT_2 duality has been fertile ground for the exploration of gauge/gravity duality, from the match between black hole entropy and the CFT elliptic genus to…

hep-th2022★ 18 cited

Worldsheet computation of heavy-light correlators

Davide Bufalini, Sergio Iguri, Nicolas Kovensky +1

We compute a large collection of string worldsheet correlators describing light probes interacting with heavy black hole microstates. The heavy states consist of NS5 branes carryin…

hep-th2022★ 24 cited

Worldsheet Correlators in Black Hole Microstates

Davide Bufalini, Sergio Iguri, Nicolas Kovensky +1

Light probes interacting with heavy bound states such as black holes give rise to interesting observables containing valuable dynamical information. Recently, a family of black hol…

hep-th2021★ 14 cited

Shockwaves in black hole microstate geometries

Bidisha Chakrabarty, Sami Rawash, David Turton

Gravitational solutions involving shockwaves have attracted significant recent interest in the context of black holes and quantum chaos. Certain classes of supersymmetric two-charg…

hep-th2021★ 28 cited

Black hole microstates from the worldsheet

Davide Bufalini, Sergio Iguri, Nicolas Kovensky +1

Recently an exact worldsheet description of strings propagating in certain black hole microstate geometries was constructed in terms of null-gauged WZW models. In this paper we con…

hep-th2020★ 44 cited

Stringy Structure at the BPS Bound

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

We explore the stringy structure of 1/2-BPS bound states of NS fivebranes carrying momentum or fundamental string charge, in the decoupling limits leading to little string theory a…

hep-th2019★ 46 cited

Little Strings, Long Strings, and Fuzzballs

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

At high energy densities, fivebranes are populated by a Hagedorn phase of so-called "little strings", whose statistical mechanics underlies black fivebrane thermodynamics. A partic…

hep-th2019★ 45 cited

AdS Holography at Dimension Two

Stefano Giusto, Sami Rawash, David Turton

Holography can provide a microscopic interpretation of a gravitational solution as corresponding to a particular CFT state: the asymptotic expansion in gravity encodes the expectat…

hep-th2018★ 20 cited

The fuzzball nature of two-charge black hole microstates

Samir D. Mathur, David Turton

It has been suggested by A. Sen that the entropy of two-charge supersymmetric bound states in string theory should be accounted for by adding the entropy of source-free horizonless…

hep-th2018★ 57 cited

AdS Holography: Mind the Cap

Iosif Bena, Pierre Heidmann, David Turton

AdS plays an extremely important role in black-hole physics. We construct several infinite families of supergravity solutions that are asymptotically AdS in the UV, and ter…

hep-th2018★ 44 cited

String dynamics in NS5-F1-P geometries

Emil J. Martinec, Stefano Massai, David Turton

String theory dynamics on certain fivebrane supertube backgrounds is described by an exactly solvable null-gauged WZW model. We use this description to compute the spectrum of clos…

hep-th2017★ 116 cited

Asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions deep inside the black-hole regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec +4

We construct an infinite family of smooth asymptotically-flat supergravity solutions that have the same charges and angular momenta as general supersymmetric D1-D5-P black holes, b…

hep-th2017★ 22 cited

Two Kissing Bolts

Guillaume Bossard, Stefanos Katmadas, David Turton

The study of non-supersymmetric black hole microstates offers the potential to resolve the black hole information paradox. A system of equations was recently obtained that enables…

hep-th2017★ 55 cited

Integrability and Black-Hole Microstate Geometries

Iosif Bena, David Turton, Robert Walker +1

We examine some recently-constructed families of asymptotically-AdSS supergravity solutions that have the same charges and mass as supersymmetric D1-D5-P black holes…

hep-th2017★ 55 cited

M-theory Superstrata and the MSW String

Iosif Bena, Emil Martinec, David Turton +1

The low-energy description of wrapped M5 branes in compactifications of M-theory on a Calabi-Yau threefold times a circle is given by a conformal field theory studied by Maldacena,…

hep-th2016★ 31 cited

Bolting Multicenter Solutions

Iosif Bena, Guillaume Bossard, Stefanos Katmadas +1

We introduce a solvable system of equations that describes non-extremal multicenter solutions to six-dimensional ungauged supergravity coupled to tensor multiplets. The system invo…

hep-th2016★ 189 cited

Smooth horizonless geometries deep inside the black-hole regime

Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Emil J. Martinec +4

We construct the first family of horizonless supergravity solutions that have the same mass, charges and angular momenta as general supersymmetric rotating D1-D5-P black holes in f…

hep-th2016★ 28 cited

Loop corrections to the antibrane potential

Iosif Bena, Johan Blåbäck, David Turton

Antibranes provide some of the most generic ways to uplift Anti-de Sitter flux compactifications to de Sitter, and there is a growing body of evidence that antibranes placed in lon…