Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the Ads/cft Correspondence
Eric D'Hoker,Daniel Z. Freedman +1 more
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In this paper, the basic ingredients of supersymmetric gauge theories (particularly N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory), supergravity, and superstring theory Brane solutions are surveyed.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 readerread more
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