AdS black holes, holography and localization

A Zaffaroni - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
I review some recent progresses in counting the number of microstates of AdS
supersymmetric black holes in dimension equal or greater than four using holography. The …

Black hole microstates in AdS4 from supersymmetric localization

F Benini, K Hristov, A Zaffaroni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract This paper addresses a long standing problem, the counting of the microstates of
supersymmetric asymptotically AdS black holes in terms of a holographically dual field …

Supersymmetric spindles

P Ferrero, JP Gauntlett, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract In the context of holography, we analyse aspects of supersymmetric geometries
based on two-dimensional orbifolds known as spindles. By analysing spin c spinors on a …

Elliptic Genera of 2d = 2 Gauge Theories

F Benini, R Eager, K Hori, Y Tachikawa - … in Mathematical Physics, 2015 - Springer
We compute the elliptic genera of general two-dimensional N=(2, 2) N=(2, 2) and N=(0, 2)
N=(0, 2) gauge theories. We find that the elliptic genus is given by the sum of Jeffrey–Kirwan …

Equivariant localization for AdS/CFT

PB Genolini, JP Gauntlett, J Sparks - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract We explain how equivariant localization may be applied to AdS/CFT to compute
various BPS observables in gravity, such as central charges and conformal dimensions of …

Elliptic Genera of Two-Dimensional Gauge Theories with Rank-One Gauge Groups

F Benini, R Eager, K Hori, Y Tachikawa - Letters in Mathematical Physics, 2014 - Springer
We compute the elliptic genera of two-dimensional N=(2, 2) N=(2, 2) and N=(0, 2) N=(0, 2)-
gauged linear sigma models via supersymmetric localization, for rank-one gauge groups …

Dimensionally reducing generalized symmetries from (3+ 1)-dimensions

E Nardoni, M Sacchi, O Sela, G Zafrir… - Journal of High Energy …, 2024 - Springer
A bstract Recently there has been an increasing interest in the study of generalized
symmetries in dimensions higher than two. This has lead to the discovery of various …

D4-branes wrapped on a spindle

F Faedo, D Martelli - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We construct supersymmetric solutions of D= 6 gauged supergravity, where is a
two-dimensional orbifold known as a spindle. These uplift to solutions of massive type IIA …

An extremization principle for the entropy of rotating BPS black holes in AdS5

SM Hosseini, K Hristov, A Zaffaroni - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2017 - Springer
A bstract We show that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a class of BPS electrically
charged rotating black holes in AdS 5× S 5 can be obtained by a simple extremization …

Gravity interpretation for the Bethe Ansatz expansion of the SYM index

O Aharony, F Benini, O Mamroud, P Milan - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
The superconformal index of the N= 4 SU (N) supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory counts the
1/16-BPS (Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield) states in this theory, and has been used via …