8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 16: Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu first discusses near-horizon geometry of a D3-brane and then consider a limit which decouples the asymptotically flat region of the geometry. The same limit applied to low energy theory of D-branes then gives the AdS / CFT duality.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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