Introduction to the AdS / CFT correspondence
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Abstract:
This text is an attempt to give a pedagogical introduction to a correspondence between supergravity in Anti-de-Sitter space and conformaly invariant supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We try to present the main ideas and arguments underlying this relationship, starting with a brief sketch of old string theory statements and proceeding with the definition of D-branes and a description of their main features. We finish with the observation of the correspondence in question and the arguments that favor it.- review
- field theory: conformal
- field theory: anti-de Sitter
- string model: boson
- partition function
- n-point function
- operator product expansion
- supersymmetry
- particle: multiplet
- membrane model: D-brane
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