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Description
Charting and analysing vacua of supergravity theories is a fundamental task to find which models can be related to String Theory as well as to understand supersymmetry breaking, the possible mechanisms to generate critical points with a positive value of the cosmological constant and which supergravities lead to Anti-de Sitter (AdS) vacua with an interesting holographic dual. Among all possible theories, the maximally supersymmetric ones stand out for their fixed matter content and the limited number of possible deformations. In this talk I will present some new techniques, borrowed from Cryptography and AI, to tackle this problem in five and seven space-time dimensions. I will also discuss how to recover analytical results starting from numerical analysis.
