• DOI:10.4310/ATMP.1998.V2.N2.A2
Corpus ID: 10882387

Anti-de Sitter space and holography

@article{Witten1998AntideSS,
  title={Anti-de Sitter space and holography},
  author={Edward Witten},
  journal={Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics},
  year={1998},
  volume={2},
  pages={253-291}
}

Edward Witten

Published 1998

Physics

Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics

Recently, it has been proposed by Maldacena that large $N$ limits of certain conformal field theories in $d$ dimensions can be described in terms of supergravity (and string theory) on the product of $d+1$-dimensional $AdS$ space with a compact manifold. Here we elaborate on this idea and propose a precise correspondence between conformal field theory observables and those of supergravity: correlation functions in conformal field theory are given by the dependence of the supergravity action on… CONTINUE READING

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