Note on anomalies in the AdS-CFT correspondence

1999/01/26 by Ofer Aharony, Jacek Pawełczyk, Jacek Pawelczyk +3 · 3 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Action (physics) #Anomaly (physics) #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Brane #Conformal anomaly #Conformal field theory #Conformal map #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Economics #Geometry #Limit (mathematics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Order (exchange) #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.60.066001

published as Phys.Rev.D60:066001,1999 · 13 pages, harvmac

arxiv created 1999/01/26 · openalex publication_date 1999/08/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We test the AdS-CFT correspondence in the case of a d=4 N=2 superconformal field theory by comparing chiral anomalies which are of order N in the 't Hooft large N limit. These include corrections of order 1/N to the conformal anomaly, thus testing the correspondence beyond the extreme large N limit. The field theory anomalies are reproduced by terms in the 7-brane effective action in the bulk.

Citations

• Lectures on D-branes
• Probing F-theory with multiple branes
• Evidence for F-theory
• Baryons And Branes In Anti de Sitter Space
• The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity

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