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Large classes of AdSp supergravity backgrounds describing the IR dynamics of p-branes wrapped on a Riemann surface are determined by a solution to the Liouville equation. The regular solutions of this equation lead to the well-known wrapped brane supergravity solutions associated with the constant curvature metric on a compact Riemann surface. We show that some singular solutions of the Liouville equation have a physical interpretation as explicit point-like brane sources on the Riemann surface. We uncover the details of this picture by focusing on \( \mathcal{N} \) = 1 theories of class \( \mathcal{S} \) arising from M5-branes on a punctured Riemann surface. We present explicit AdS5 solutions dual to these SCFTs and check the holographic duality by showing the non-trivial agreement of ’t Hooft anomalies.
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Bobev, N., Bomans, P. & Gautason, F.F. Wrapped branes and punctured horizons. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 11 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2020)011
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