Strings on AdS_3 and the WZW model | Department of Mathematics

Math-Physics Joint Seminar

Tuesday, October 23, 2001 - 4:30pm

J. Maldacena

Harvard University and I.A.S.

Location

University of Pennsylvania

4C6

The sigma model describing string theory on AdS_3 can be solved exactly since it is a WZW model. We will discuss how to extract some information relevant for string theory from this exact solution. We will discuss the spectrum of the spacetime theory, its free energy and some properties of the correlation functions.

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