Giants on deformed backgrounds
We study giant graviton probes in the framework of the three-parameter deformation of the AdS5 × S 5 background. We examine both the case when the brane expands in the deformed ˜ S 5 part of the geometry and the case when it blows up into AdS5. Performing a detailed analysis of small fluctuations around the giants, the configurations turn out to be stable. Our results hold even for the supersymmetric Lunin-Maldacena deformation.