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Holography for Coset Spaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

M/string theory on noncompact, negatively curved, cosets which generalize AdSD+1=SO(D,2)/SO(D,1)AdS_{D+1}=SO(D,2)/SO(D,1) is considered. Holographic descriptions in terms of a conformal field theory on the boundary of the spacetime are proposed. Examples include SU(2,1)/U(2)SU(2,1)/U(2), which is a Euclidean signature (4,0) space with no supersymmetry, and SO(2,2)/SO(2)SO(2,2)/SO(2) and SO(3,2)/SO(3)SO(3,2)/SO(3), which are Lorentzian signature (4,1) and (6,1) spaces with eight supersymmetries. Qualitatively new features arise due to the degenerate nature of the conformal boundary metric.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9905211,
  title  = {Holography for Coset Spaces},
  author = {Ruth Britto-Pacumio and Andrew Strominger and Anastasia Volovich},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9905211},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Harvmac, 23 pages. Additions/correction to section 3.2

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