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We build a novel time-like coset sigma-model describing type-II superstring theory in a charged rotating black-brane background that interpolates between a local AdS3 in the IR and a linear-dilaton geometry in the UV. This allows one to peform a systematic study of holography in non-AdS backgrounds which are smoothly connected to AdS3. We construct massless closed string states vertex operators in the NS-NS sector, calculate the corresponding two-point correlation functions, and discuss holographic interpretation of our results from 4+1 dimensional boundary field theory point of view. Compactifying the theory on 𝕋4, we show that the spectrum of a single long string with unit winding agrees with the spectrum of a CFT2 deformed by \( T\overline{T} \). We also calculate correlation functions of operators of the dual 1+1 dimensional non-conformal boundary field theory using worldsheet techniques.
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Chakraborty, S., Goykhman, M. Solvable time-like cosets and holography beyond AdS. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 244 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2022)244
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