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We consider heterotic strings on a warped Eguchi-Hanson space with five-brane and line bundle gauge fluxes. The heterotic string admits an exact CFT description in terms of an asymmetrically gauged \( \mathrm{SU}(2)\times \mathrm{SL}\left( {2,\mathbb{R}} \right) \) WZW model, in a specific double scaling limit in which the blow-up radius and the string scale are sent to zero simultaneously. This allows us to compute the perturbative 6D spectra for these models in two independent fashions: i) Within the supergravity approximation we employ a representation dependent index; ii) In the double scaling limit we determine all marginal vertex operators of the coset CFT. To achieve agreement between the supergravity and the CFT spectra, we conjecture that the untwisted and the twisted CFT states correspond to the same set of hyper multiplets in supergravity. This is in a similar spirit as a conjectured duality between asymptotically linear dilaton CFTs and little string theory living on NS-five-branes. As the five-brane charge is non-vanishing, heterotic (anti-)five-branes have to be added in order to cancel irreducible gauge anomalies. The local spectra can be combined in such a way that supersymmetry is preserved on the compact resolved \( {{{{T^4}}} \left/ {{{{\mathbb{Z}}_2}}} \right.} \) orbifold by choosing the local gauge fluxes appropriately.
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Carlevaro, L., Nibbelink, S.G. Heterotic warped Eguchi-Hanson spectra with five-branes and line bundles. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 97 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2013)097
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