S-Matrices from AdS Spacetime

1999/01/18 by Joseph Polchinski, Polchinski, Joseph · 12 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9901076

13 pages, LaTeX

arxiv created 1999/01/18 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

In the large-N limit of d=4, N=4 gauge theory, the dual AdS spacetime becomes flat. We identify a gauge theory correlator whose large-N limit is the flat spacetime S-matrix.

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