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We show that there are no smooth warped AdS3 solutions in 10- and 11- dimensional supergravities which preserve strictly more than 16 supersymmetries and have internal space a compact without boundary manifold.
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Haupt, A.S., Lautz, S. & Papadopoulos, G. A non-existence theorem for N > 16 supersymmetric AdS3 backgrounds. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 178 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2018)178
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