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Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes (2019)
Journal Article
Armas, J., Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V., & Obers, N. A. (2019). Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(8), Article 128. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep08%282019%29128

We use blackfold methods to analyse the properties of putative supergravity solutions in M-theory that describe the backreaction of polarised anti-M2 branes (namely, M5 branes wrapping three-cycles with negative M2-brane charge) in the Cvetic-Gibbons... Read More about Thermal transitions of metastable M-branes.

Metastable Nonextremal Antibranes (2019)
Journal Article
Armas, J., Nguyen, N., Niarchos, V., Obers, N., & Van Riet, T. (2019). Metastable Nonextremal Antibranes. Physical Review Letters, 122(18), Article 181601. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.122.181601

We find new and compelling evidence for the metastability of supersymmetry-breaking states in holographic backgrounds whose consistency has been the source of ongoing disagreements in the literature. As a concrete example, we analyze anti-D3 branes a... Read More about Metastable Nonextremal Antibranes.

Deconstructing defects (2019)
Journal Article
Hayling, J., Niarchos, V., & Papageorgakis, C. (2019). Deconstructing defects. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019(2), Article 67. https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep02%282019%29067

We use the exact-deconstruction prescription to lift various squashed-S3 partition functions with supersymmetric-defect insertions to four-dimensional superconformal indices. Starting from three-dimensional circular-quiver theories with vortex-loop-o... Read More about Deconstructing defects.