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LARGE N FIELD THEORIES, STRING THEORY AND GRAVITY
2006
Topics in Mathematical Physics, General Relativity and Cosmology in Honor of Jerzy Plebanski
We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory, focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter spaces and conformal field theories. We review the background for this correspondence and discuss its motivations and the evidence for its correctness. We describe the main results that have been derived from the correspondence in the regime that the field theory is approximated by classical or semiclassical gravity. We
doi:10.1142/9789812772732_0025
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