AdS/CFT correspondence

physics

Also known as: anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory

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In string theory: M-theory and AdS/CFT correspondence
…anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. Maldacena found that a string theory operating with a particular environment (involving a space-time known as an anti-de Sitter space) was equivalent to a type of quantum field theory operating in an environment with one less spatial dimension. This has proved to be…
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In brane
… to the 1997 discovery of anti de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) duality. This is a construction of a quantum theory of gravity, a previously unsolved problem, in terms of the well-understood Yang-Mills gauge fields of particle physics. AdS/CFT has led to unexpected connections between gravity and many other areas of…
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