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The near-horizon region of Neveu-Schwarz fivebranes provides interesting examples of gauge/gravity duality. We revisit the structure of wrapped and/or intersecting fivebranes using the tools of null-gauged WZW models in worldsheet string theory, revealing the effective geometry of the fivebrane throat in a variety of examples. Variant gaugings yield linear dilaton fivebrane throats with AdS3 caps, providing a wealth of information about the near-BPS structure of the corresponding spacetime CFT duals.
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Brennan, T.D., Martinec, E.J. Wrapped fivebranes redux. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 11 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2021)011
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