École de Physique des Houches, Session XCVII, 1-26 August 2011
ISBN
9780198727965
Series
Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School
Event
series of lectures at Les Houches Summer School: Theoretical Physics to Face the Challenge of LHC, Les Houches, France
Pages (from-to)
163-184
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Organisations
Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract
This chapter provides a summary of some of the most important aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence, together with pointers to some of the vast number of papers that have been published on this subject. The AdS/CFT correspondence is one of the most exciting discoveries in theoretical physics of the past 20 years, providing a framework in which it is possible to study strongly coupled field theories using weakly coupled gravity, and at the same time yielding a non-perturbative definition of quantum gravity in anti-de Sitter space.