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We study the localization of gravity on string-like defects in codimension two. We point out that the gravity-localizing `local cosmic string spacetime has an orbifold singularity at the horizon. The supergravity embedding and the AdS/CFT correspondence suggest ways to resolve the singularity. We find two resolutions of the singularity that have a semiclassical gravity description and study their effect on the low-energy physics on the defect. The first resolution leads, at long distances, to a codimension one Randall-Sundrum scenario. In the second case, the infrared physics is like that of a conventional finite-size Kaluza-Klein compactification, with no power-law corrections to the gravitational potential. Similar resolutions apply also in higher codimension gravity-localizing backgrounds.
One can associate an invariant to a large class of regular codimension two defects of the six dimensional $(0,2)$ SCFT $mathscr{X}[j]$ using the classical Springer correspondence. Such an association allows a simple description of S-duality of associ
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