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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151938403321

Titolo

AdS/CFT Correspondence: Einstein Metrics and Their Conformal Boundaries [[electronic resource] /] / Olivier Biquard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zuerich, Switzerland, : European Mathematical Society Publishing House, 2005

ISBN

3-03719-513-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 pages)

Collana

IRMA Lectures in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (IRMA) ; , 2523-5133 ; ; 8

Classificazione

53-xx35-xx81-xx83-xx

Soggetti

Differential & Riemannian geometry

Differential equations

Relativistic quantum mechanics & quantum field theory

Differential geometry

Partial differential equations

Quantum theory

Relativity and gravitational theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Geometric aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence / Michael T. Anderson -- Some aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence / Jan de Boer, Liat Maoz, Asad Naqvi -- The ambient obstruction tensor and Q-curvature / C. Robin Graham, Kengo Hirachi -- AdS/CFT correspondence and geometry / Ioannis Papadimitriou, Kostas Skenderis -- Mass formulae for asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds / Marc Herzlich -- Reconstructing Minkowski space-time / Sergey N. Solodukhin -- Non-trivial, static, geodesically complete space-times with a negative cosmological constant II. n ≥ 5 / Michael T. Anderson, Piotr T. Chruściel, Erwann Delay -- The conformal boundary of anti-de Sitter space-times / Charles Frances -- Supersymmetric AdS backgrounds in string and M-theory / Jerome P. Gauntlett, Dario Martelli, James Sparks, Daniel Waldram.

Sommario/riassunto

Since its discovery in 1997 by Maldacena, AdS/CFT correspondence has  become one of the prime subjects of interest in string theory, as well as



one of the main meeting points between theoretical physics and mathematics. On the physical side it provides a duality between a theory of quantum gravity and a field theory. The mathematical counterpart is the relation between Einstein metrics and their conformal boundaries. The correspondence has been intensively studied, and a lot of progress emerged from the confrontation of  viewpoints between mathematics and physics.     Written by leading experts and directed at research mathematicians and  theoretical physicists as well as graduate students, this volume gives an overview  of this important area both in theoretical physics and in mathematics. It contains survey articles giving a broad overview of the subject and of the main questions, as well as more specialized articles providing new insight both on the Riemannian side and on the Lorentzian side of the theory.