• DOI:10.1007/3-540-46671-1_5
• Corpus ID: 119263602

Anti-de-Sitter spacetime and its uses

@article{Gibbons2011AntideSitterSA,
  title={Anti-de-Sitter spacetime and its uses},
  author={G. W. Gibbons},
  journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory},
  year={2011}
}

• G. Gibbons
• Published 6 October 2011
• Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory

This is a pedagogic account of some of the global properties of Anti-de-Sitter spacetime with a view to their application to the AdS/CFT correspondence. Particular care is taken over the distinction between Anti-de-Sitter and it's covering space.
Written version of lectures given at 2nd Samos Meeting held at at Pythagoreon, Samos, Greece, 31 August - 4 September 1998 and published as Anti-de-Sitter spacetime and its uses, in Mathematical and Quantum Aspects of Relativity and Cosmology. Proceedings of the 2nd Samos Meeting on Cosmology, Geometry and Relativity, S Cotsakis and G W Gibbons eds, {\it Lecture Notes in Physics}\, {\bf 537} (2000)}