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In this thesis we consider three topics: the Penrose inequality (PI), polymer corrected gravitational collapse, and zero mode excitations in a RandallSundrum-2 (RS2) cosmological braneworld model. In chapter 2, we attempt to construct a counterexample to the PI using prolate sph…

In this thesis we explore the finite N spectrum of BPS operators in four-dimensional supersymmetric conformal field theories (CFT), which have dual AdS gravitational descriptions. In the first part we analyze the spectrum of chiral operators in the free limit of quiver gauge the…