Introduction to the AdS/CFT Duality - Martin Ammon

Abstract: Holography - also referred to as AdS/CFT correspondence or Gauge/Gravity duality - is an attractive new concept providing surprising cross-relations between various active research areas. In the talk I will mainly focus on AdS/CFT dualities linking (conformal) quantum field theories to higher-dimensional quantum gravity theories in asymptotically Anti-deSitter spacetimes. On one hand, those dualities shed new light on quantum gravity aspects, while on the other, they provide tools for studying strongly coupled systems in a variety of areas in physics.

After a short introduction into the basic building blocks of such AdS/CFT dualities I discuss quantum gravity aspects of such dualities. Finally, I will provide an outlook to the important next steps in this research direction.

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