Comments on String Theory on AdS₃

1998/06/30 by A. Giveon, D. Kutasov, N. Seiberg · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th

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published as Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:733-780,1998 · 46 pages, harvmac; minor changes and references added

arxiv created 1998/07/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We study string propagation on AdS₃ times a compact space from an ``old fashioned'' worldsheet point of view of perturbative string theory. We derive the spacetime CFT and its Virasoro and current algebras, thus establishing the conjectured AdS/CFT correspondence for this case in the full string theory. Our results have implications for the extreme IR limit of the D1-D5 system, as well as to 2+1 dimensional BTZ black holes and their Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.

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