On N = 8 supergravity in AdS5 and N = 4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory

1998/02/28 by S. Ferrara, Sergio Ferrara, C. Frønsdal +2 · 141 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Boundary (topology) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Covariant transformation #Gauge theory #Higher-dimensional supergravity #Invariant (physics) #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum electrodynamics #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Yang–Mills theory #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0550-3213(98)00444-1

published in Nuclear Physics B 532(1-2), 153-162 (Elsevier BV) · 12 pages, harvmac, typos corrected, references added

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Abstract

We discuss the spectrum of states of IIB supergravity on AdS₅× S⁵ in a manifest SU(2,2/4) invariant setting. The boundary fields are described in terms of N=4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory and the proposed correspondence between supergravity in AdS₅ and superconformal invariant singleton theory at the boundary is formulated in an N=4 superfield covariant language.

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