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What's so special about AdS?
This question is coming from someone who has very little experience with M-Theory but is intrigued by the AdS/CFT correspondence and is beginning to study it.
Why is the gauge/gravity duality ...
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Choice and identification of vacuums in AdS/CFT
I know how we define a vacuum in flat space QFT and also in a curved space QFT. But, can somebody tell me how do the choice of vacuum state in (say) the CFT side of AdS/CFT changes the choice of ...
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Why is spacetime near a quantum black hole approximately AdS?
In this link, one of the answers contains the statement
If you examine the space-time near a finite area quantum black hole,
you will see an approximate AdS space.
Presumably "approximate" ...
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AdS space - Poincare Patch
How can I work out in detail the explicit coordinate transformation formulas needed to go from the "canonical" coordinates to the "Poincare patch"? I'm reading about AdS but the text takes the ...
