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BTZ Trailing Strings
Iosif Bena, Alexander Tyukov
We compute holographically the energy loss of a moving quark in various states of the D1-D5 CFT. In the dual bulk geometries, the quark is the end of a trailing string, and the pro…
Throat destabilization (for profit and for fun)
Iosif Bena, Alex Buchel, Severin Lüst
Two recent results indicate that the addition of supersymmetry-breaking ingredients can destabilize the Klebanov-Strassler warped deformed conifold throat. The first comes from an…
Kähler moduli stabilization from ten dimensions
Iosif Bena, Mariana Graña, Nicolas Kovensky +1
We describe the back-reaction of gaugino condensates in supersymmetric AdS Type II String Theory compactifications with fluxes. We use generalized complex geometry to capture t…
Thermal Decay without Information Loss in Horizonless Microstate Geometries
Iosif Bena, Pierre Heidmann, Ruben Monten +1
We develop a new hybrid WKB technique to compute boundary-to-boundary scalar Green functions in asymptotically-AdS backgrounds in which the scalar wave equation is separable and is…
The two faces of T-branes
Iosif Bena, Johan Blåbäck, Raffaele Savelli +1
We establish a brane-brane duality connecting T-branes to collections of ordinary D-branes. T-branes are intrinsically non-Abelian brane configurations with worldvolume flux, where…