Astrophysics Lectures - 16. Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture

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D-branes AdS/CFT duality D3-brane spacetime geometry AdS spacetime

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MIT 8.821 String Theory and Holographic Duality, Fall 2014 View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-821F14 Instructor: Hong Liu In this lecture, Prof. Liu discusses near-horizon geometry of a D3-brane and consider a limit which decouples the asymptotically flat region of the geometry. The same limit applied to low energy theory of D-branes then gives the AdS / CFT duality. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at http://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at http://ocw.mit.edu