The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity
@article{Maldacena1997TheLL, title={The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity}, author={Juan Maldacena}, journal={International Journal of Theoretical Physics}, year={1997}, volume={38}, pages={1113-1133} }
We show that the large-N limits of certainconformal field theories in various dimensions includein their Hilbert space a sector describing supergravityon the product of anti-de Sitter spacetimes, spheres, and other compact manifolds. This is shown bytaking some branes in the full M/string theory and thentaking a low-energy limit where the field theory on thebrane decouples from the bulk. We observe that, in this limit, we can still trust thenear-horizon geometry for large N. The…
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