Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence Export

@article{citeulike:1651997, abstract = {In these lecture notes we first assemble the basic ingredients of supersymmetric gauge theories (particularly N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory), supergravity, and superstring theory. Brane solutions are surveyed. The geometry and symmetries of anti-de Sitter space are discussed. The AdS/CFT correspondence of Maldacena and its application to correlation functions in the the conformal phase of N=4 SYM are explained in considerable detail. A pedagogical treatment of holographic RG flows is given including a review of the conformal anomaly in four-dimensional quantum field theory and its calculation from five-dimensional gravity. Problem sets and exercises await the reader.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {D'Hoker, Eric and Freedman, Daniel Z.}, citeulike-article-id = {1651997}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201253}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0201253}, day = {14}, eprint = {hep-th/0201253}, keywords = {ads-cft, duality, qft, review, susy}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2009-10-21 15:09:14}, priority = {2}, title = {Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201253}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1651997 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1651997 N2 - In these lecture notes we first assemble the basic ingredients of supersymmetric gauge theories (particularly N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory), supergravity, and superstring theory. Brane solutions are surveyed. The geometry and symmetries of anti-de Sitter space are discussed. The AdS/CFT correspondence of Maldacena and its application to correlation functions in the the conformal phase of N=4 SYM are explained in considerable detail. A pedagogical treatment of holographic RG flows is given including a review of the conformal anomaly in four-dimensional quantum field theory and its calculation from five-dimensional gravity. Problem sets and exercises await the reader. TI - Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence KW - ads-cft KW - duality KW - qft KW - review KW - susy AU - D'Hoker, Eric AU - Freedman, Daniel PY - 2002/Feb/14/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201253 ER -