Relating conifold geometries to NS5-branes

We construct the first known example of a near horizon supergravity solution for a pair of NS5-branes, intersecting on R1,3 and localised in all directions except a single transverse circle. We do this by establishing an explicit map between the conifold metric and the near horizon geometry of two intersecting NS5-branes, clarifying and correcting a number of open issues in the literature en route. Our technique is general in nature and may be applied to a whole class of 1/4-BPS five-brane webs and their geometric duals. These 1/4-BPS solutions may have an interesting holographic interpretation in terms of little string theory.

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Work Title Relating conifold geometries to NS5-branes
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  1. Jock McOrist
  2. Andrew B. Royston
License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives)
Work Type Article
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  1. Nuclear Physics B
Publication Date April 8, 2011
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  1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.04.003
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