2011/04/30 by Luca Mazzucato
Physics and Astronomy · #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physrep.2012.08.001
157 pages, 1 figure; v3 final version to appear in Physics Reports. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:hep-th/0009168, arXiv:0910.1195, arXiv:hep-th/0112160, arXiv:hep-th/0409159 by other authors
arxiv created 2012/02/12 · arxiv updated 2015/05/27
This is a comprehensive review of the worldsheet techniques for the quantization of type IIB superstring theory on the AdS5 x S5 background, using the pure spinor formalism. Particular emphasis is devoted to AdS/CFT applications, with several examples worked out in details. The review is self-contained and pedagogical. Table of contents: 1) Introduction; 2) Generalities; 3) Supercoset sigma models; 4) Quantum effective action and conformal invariance; 5) String spectrum; 6) Integrability.