Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: recipe and applications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We formulate a prescription for computing Minkowski-space correlators from AdS/CFT correspondence. This prescription is shown to give the correct retarded propagators at zero temperature in four dimensions, as well as at finite temperature in the two-dimensional conformal field theory dual to the BTZ black hole. Using the prescription, we calculate the Chern-Simons diffusion constant of the finite-temperature N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the strong coupling limit. We explain why the quasinormal frequencies of the asymptotically AdS background correspond to the poles of the retarded Green's function of the boundary conformal field theory.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0205051,
title = {Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: recipe and applications},
author = {D. T. Son and A. O. Starinets},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0205051},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
28 pages, v.2: typos corrected, references added