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Query: An effective theory for higher-dimensional black holes and applications
  to metastable antibranes   Despite their consequential applications, metastable states of antibranes in
warped throats are not yet fully understood. In this thesis, we provide new
information on various aspects of these metastable antibranes through
applications of the blackfold effective theory for higher-dimensional black
holes. As concrete examples, we study the conjectured metastable state of
polarised anti-D3 branes at the tip of the Klebanov-Strassler (KS) throat in
type IIB supergravity and the analogous state of polarised anti-M2 branes at
the tip of the Cvetic-Gibbons-Lu-Pope (CGLP) throat in eleven-dimensional
supergravity.
  For anti-D3 branes in KS throat, we provide novel evidence for the existence
of the metastable state exactly where no-go theorems are lifted. In the
extremal limit, we recover directly in supergravity the metastable states
originally discovered by Kachru, Pearson, and Verlinde (KPV). Away from
extremality, we uncover a metastable wrapped black NS5 state. We observe that
such metastability is lost when the wrapped NS5 is heated sufficiently that its
horizon geometry resembles that of a black anti-D3. We study the classical
stability of the KPV state under generic long-wavelength deformations. We
observe that, with regards to considered perturbations and regime of
parameters, the state is classically stable. A study of anti-M2 branes in CGLP
throat reveals many similarities to that of the anti-D3 branes. We recover
directly in supergravity the Klebanov-Pufu (KP) state at extremality, and our
finite temperature results fit suggestively well with known, complementary
no-go theorems. However, we discover an unexpected, exotic pattern of thermal
transitions of the KP state different from that of the KPV.
  This thesis contains also a pedagogical introduction to the blackfold
formalism, focusing on aspects immediately relevant to applications to
metastable antibranes.

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