# 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}
}
• E. Witten
• Published 20 February 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…
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