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We study string theory on AdS3 backgrounds with mixed flux using the hybrid formalism of Berkovits, Vafa and Witten. We solve the worldsheet description of the theory completely in the plane-wave limit. This constitutes a direct derivation of the plane-wave spectrum from the worldsheet with mixed flux.
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Eberhardt, L., Ferreira, K. The plane-wave spectrum from the worldsheet. J. High Energ. Phys. 2018, 109 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2018)109
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