We find non-critical string backgrounds in five and eight dimensions, holographically related
to four-dimensional conformal field theories with Script N= 0 and Script N= 1 …

A bstract We explore the stringy structure of 1/2-BPS bound states of NS fivebranes carrying
momentum or fundamental string charge, in the decoupling limits leading to little string …

A bstract At high energy densities, fivebranes are populated by a Hagedorn phase of so-
called little strings, whose statistical mechanics underlies black fivebrane thermodynamics …

A bstract String theory on AdS 3 backgrounds arises as an IR limit of Little String Theory on
NS5-branes. A wide variety of holographic RG flows from the fivebrane theory in the UV to …

We attack the long-standing problem of finding the AdS dual of N= 2 superconformal QCD,
the N= 2 super Yang Mills theory with gauge group SU (N_c) and N_f= 2 N_c fundamental …

This companion paper to arXiv: 2109.00065 explores the interpretation of $ AdS_3/CFT_2 $
duality for $ k=(R_ {AdS}/\lstr)^ 2< 1$ in terms of" non-critical little string theory". We review …

A bstract AdS 3 string theory in the stringy regime k=(R AdS/ℓ s) 2< 1 provides a laboratory
for the study of holography in which both sides of AdS/CFT duality are under fairly good …

The dynamics of certain string configurations in a class of fivebrane supertube backgrounds
is studied. In the decoupling limit of the fivebranes, these solutions are known to admit an …

We study D-branes in the mirror pair N= 2 Liouville/supersymmetric SL (2, R)/U (1) coset
superconformal field theories. We build D0-, D1-and D2-branes, on the basis of the …

A bstract We study tree level scattering amplitudes of four massless states in the double
scaled little string theory, and compare them to perturbative loop amplitudes in six …