Comments on String Theory on $AdS_3$
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
We study string propagation on times a compact space from an ``old fashioned'' worldsheet point of view of perturbative string theory. We derive the spacetime CFT and its Virasoro and current algebras, thus establishing the conjectured /CFT correspondence for this case in the full string theory. Our results have implications for the extreme IR limit of the system, as well as to 2+1 dimensional BTZ black holes and their Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9806194,
title = {Comments on String Theory on $AdS_3$},
author = {A. Giveon and D. Kutasov and N. Seiberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9806194},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
46 pages, harvmac; minor changes and references added