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All symmetric space AdS n solutions of type II supergravity have recently been found for n > 2. For the supersymmetric solutions (and their T-duals) it is known that the Green-Schwarz string is classically integrable. We complete the classification by ruling out integrability for the remaining non-supersymmetric solutions. This is achieved by showing that tree-level scattering on the worldsheet of a GKP or BMN string fails to factorize for these cases.
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Wulff, L. Classifying integrable symmetric space strings via factorized scattering. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 106 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2018)106
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