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Lectures on black holes and the AdS_3 / CFT_2 correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-12-18 v2

Abstract

We present a detailed discussion of AdS_3 black holes and their connection to two-dimensional conformal field theories via the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our emphasis is on deriving refined versions of black hole partition functions, that include the effect of higher derivative terms in the spacetime action as well as non-perturbative effects. We include background material on gravity in AdS_3, in the context of holographic renormalization.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0609074,
  title  = {Lectures on black holes and the AdS_3 / CFT_2 correspondence},
  author = {Per Kraus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0609074},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

55 pages. Lectures presented at the Winter School on the Attractor Mechanism (Frascati, March 20-24, 2006). v2: references added