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Emergent Spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-12-16 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We give an introductory account of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the 1/2-BPS sector of N=4{\cal N}=4 super Yang-Mills theory.Six of the dimensions of the string theory are emergent in the Yang-Mills theory. In this article we suggest how these dimensions and local physics in these dimensions emerge. The discussion is aimed at non-experts.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4817,
  title  = {Emergent Spacetime},
  author = {Robert de Mello Koch and Jeff Murugan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4817},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

23 pages, 1 figure, Submitted to proceedings of "Foundations of Space and Time" workshop, Cambridge University Press, v2 minor typos corrected and references added

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