Lessons from the Vacuum Structure of 4d N=2 Supergravity

Understand

This PhD thesis is devoted to the study of supersymmetry preserving background solutions of N=2 supergravity in 4 dimensions.

• The main contents are divided into three major parts, briefly summarized as follows.
• Part I deals with analysis of maximally supersymmetric configurations.
• Part II discusses BPS black holes with Minkowski and anti-de Sitter (AdS) asymptotics.