Abstract:
This is a brief introductory review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and of the ideas that led to its formulation. Emphasis is placed on dualities between conformal large NN gauge theories in 4 dimensions and string backgrounds of the form AdS5×X5AdS_5\times X_5. Attempts to generalize this correspondence to asymptotically free theories are also included.
  • talk: Fort Lauderdale 1998/12/17
  • membrane model: p-brane
  • p-brane: 3
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • supersymmetry
  • expansion 1/N
  • field theory: conformal
  • space-time: de Sitter
  • correlation function
  • asymptotic freedom
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