Large N field theories, string theory and gravity

O Aharony, SS Gubser, J Maldacena, H Ooguri, Y Oz - Physics Reports, 2000 - Elsevier
We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory,
focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter …

Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories

E Witten - arxiv preprint hep-th/9803131, 1998 - arxiv.org
The correspondence between supergravity (and string theory) on $ AdS $ space and
boundary conformal field theory relates the thermodynamics of ${\cal N}= 4$ super Yang …

Introduction to the Maldacena conjecture on AdS/CFT

JL Petersen - International Journal of Modern Physics A, 1999 - World Scientific
September 8, 1999 9:12 WSPC/139-IJMPA 0246 INTRODUCTION TO THE MALDACENA
CONJECTURE ON AdS/CFT 1. Introduction The Maldacena con Page 1 September 8, 1999 …

Correlation functions in the CFTd/AdSd+ 1 correspondence

DZ Freedman, SD Mathur, A Matusis, L Rastelli - Nuclear Physics B, 1999 - Elsevier
Conformal techniques are applied to the calculation of integrals on AdSd+ 1 space which
define correlators of composite operators in the superconformal field theory on the d …

Renormalization group flows from holography--supersymmetry and a c-theorem

DZ Freedman, SS Gubser, K Pilch… - arxiv preprint hep-th …, 1999 - arxiv.org
We obtain first order equations that determine a supersymmetric kink solution in five-
dimensional N= 8 gauged supergravity. The kink interpolates between an exterior anti-de …

Convexity and liberation at large spin

Z Komargodski, A Zhiboedov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2013 - Springer
A bstract We consider several aspects of unitary higher-dimensional conformal field theories
(CFTs). We first study massive deformations that trigger a flow to a gapped phase. Deep …

Type IIB superstring action in AdS5× S5 background

RR Metsaev, AA Tseytlin - Nuclear Physics B, 1998 - Elsevier
We construct the covariant κ-symmetric superstring action for a type IIB superstring on
AdS5⊕ S5 background. The action is defined as a 2d σ-model on the coset superspace SU …

Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence

E D'HOKER, DZ Freedman - Strings, Branes and Extra Dimensions …, 2004 - World Scientific
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 …

Locally localized gravity

A Karch, L Randall - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the fluctuation spectrum of linearized gravity around nonfine-tuned branes. We
focus on the case of an AdS4 brane in AdS5. In this case, for small cosmological constant …

Massless higher spins and holography

E Sezgin, P Sundell - Nuclear Physics B, 2002 - Elsevier
We treat free large N superconformal field theories as holographic duals of higher spin (HS)
gauge theories expanded around AdS spacetime with radius R. The HS gauge theories …