nLab Iosif Bena

Selected writings

On black rings in D=5 supergravity:

• Iosif Bena, Per Kraus, Microscopic description of black rings in AdS/CFT JHEP 12 (2004) 070 (hep-th/0408186)

On non-uniqueness of black rings:

• Iosif Bena, Simon Ross, Nicholas Warner, Coiffured Black Rings, Class.Quant.Grav. 31 (2014) 165015 (arXiv:1405.5217)

On D1-D5-brane bound states:

• Iosif Bena, Per Kraus, Microstates of the D1-D5-KK system Phys. Rev. D72 (2005) 025007 (hep-th/0503053)

On AdS-CFT dual type II supergravity-solutions corresponding to D1-D5-P bound states (“superstrata”):

• Iosif Bena, Stefano Giusto, Rodolfo Russo, Masaki Shigemori, Nicholas P. Warner, Habemus Superstratum! A constructive proof of the existence of superstrata, JHEP 1505 (2015) 110 [arXiv:1503.01463]

Discussion of D-brane polarization in context of the AdS/CFT correspondence and AdS/QCD correspondence:

• Iosif Bena, Aleksey Nudelman, Warping and vacua of $(S)YM_{3+1}$, Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 086008 (arXiv:hep-th/0005163)

• Iosif Bena, Aleksey Nudelman, Exotic polarizations of D2 branes and oblique vacua of $(S)YM_{2+1}$, Phys. Rev. D62 (2000) 126007 (arXiv:hep-th/0006102)

• Iosif Bena, Stanislav Kuperstein, Brane polarization is no cure for tachyons, JHEP09 (2015) 112 (arXiv:1504.00656)

Discussion of D4-branes polarizing into NS5-branes:

• Iosif Bena, Calin Ciocarlie, Exact $\mathcal{N}=2$ Supergravity Solutions With Polarized Branes, Phys.Rev. D70 (2004) 086005 (arXiv:hep-th/0212252)

• Iosif Bena, Radu Roiban, $\mathcal{N}=1*$ in 5 dimensions: Dijkgraaf-Vafa meets Polchinski-Strassler, JHEP 0311 (2003) 001 (arXiv:hep-th/0308013)

On the Myers effect in M-theory for M2-branes polarizing into M5-branes of (fuzzy) 3-sphere-shape:

• Iosif Bena, The M-theory dual of a 3 dimensional theory with reduced supersymmetry, Phys. Rev. D62:126006, 2000 (arXiv:hep-th/0004142)

• Iosif Bena, Nicholas Warner, A harmonic family of dielectric flow solutions with maximal supersymmetry, JHEP 0412:021, 2004 (arXiv:hep-th/0406145)

• Iosif Bena, Mariana Graña, Stanislav Kuperstein, Stefano Massai, Tachyonic Anti-M2 Branes, JHEP 1406:173, 2014 (arXiv:1402.2294)

Polarization of M5-branes into MK6:

• Iosif Bena, Diana Vaman, The polarization of M5 branes and little string theories with reduced supersymmetry, JHEP 0111 (2001) 032 (arXiv:hep-th/0101064)

On the relation of polarized branes to giant gravitons:

• Iosif Bena, Douglas Smith,

  Towards the solution to the giant graviton puzzle, Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 025005 (arXiv:hep-th/0401173)

On (in-)stability of non-supersymmetric AdS vacua in string theory:

• Iosif Bena, Krzysztof Pilch, Nicholas Warner, Brane-Jet Instabilities, J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 91 (2020) (arXiv:2003.02851)

On M2-M5-brane bound states:

• Iosif Bena, Anthony Houppe, Dimitrios Toulikas, Nicholas P. Warner, Maze Topiary in Supergravity [arXiv:2312.02286]

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