We review recent progress on the instabilities of black strings and branes both for pure
Einstein gravity as well as supergravity theories which are relevant for string theory. We …

We review (mainly) quantum effects in the theories where the gravity sector is described by
metric and dilaton. The one-loop effective action for dilatonic gravity in two and four …

The asymptotically-logarithmically-AdS black-hole solutions of 5D dilaton gravity with a
monotonic dilaton potential are analyzed in detail. Such theories are holographically very …

We examine the thermodynamic stability of large black holes in four-dimensional anti-de
Sitter space, and we demonstrate numerically that black holes which lack local …

We study the conjectured connection between AdS bubbles (AdS solitons) and closed string
tachyon condensations. We confirm that the entanglement entropy, which measures the …

A bstract We consider the (p+ 2)-dimensional gauged supergravities arising as a consistent
truncation of type II on S 8− p, which are associated with the near-horizon limit of Dp-branes …

We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to argue that large rotating black holes in global AdS
D spaces are dual to stationary solutions of the relativistic Navier-Stokes equations on SD …

A bstract We use the duality between gravitational dynamics and fluids living on dynamical
surfaces carrying multiple charges, known as the blackfold approach, to perturbatively …

A bstract We calculate holographically one and two-point functions of scalar operators at
finite density and/or finite temperature. In the case of finite density and zero temperature we …

A bstract We calculate holographically three-point functions of scalar operators with large
dimensions at finite density and finite temperature. To achieve this, we construct new …