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We construct supersymmetric AdS3 solutions in F-theory, that is Type IIB supergravity with varying axio-dilaton, which are holographically dual to 2d \( \mathcal{N}=\left(0,4\right) \) superconformal field theories with small superconformal algebra. In F-theory these arise from D3-branes wrapped on curves in the base of an elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefold Y 3 and correspond to self-dual strings in the 6d \( \mathcal{N}=\left(1,0\right) \) theory obtained from F-theory on Y 3. The non-trivial fibration over the wrapped curves implies a varying coupling of the \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) Super-Yang-Mills theory on the D3-branes. We compute the holographic central charges and show that these agree with the field theory and with the anomalies of self-dual strings in 6d. We complement our analysis with a discussion of the dual M-theory solutions and a comparison of the central charges.
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Couzens, C., Lawrie, C., Martelli, D. et al. F-theory and AdS3/CFT2 . J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 43 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2017)043
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