Lecture notes on strings in AdS from the worldsheet and the AdS/CFT duality
arXiv:2601.06697 · doi:10.21468/SciPostPhysLectNotes.132
Abstract
These lecture notes, based on the course given at IPhT in November/December 2023, provide a pedagogical introduction to the study of strings in AdS backgrounds supported by NSNS flux from the worldsheet perspective, including a number of updates incorporating recent results. We attempt to give a self-contained overview of the state-of-the-art understanding of this topic, describing key aspects of its 25-year-long rich history alongside some important recent developments, with an emphasis on the computation of worldsheet correlation functions involving spectrally flowed insertions.
v2: Typos corrected. Clarifications and references added. Version accepted in SciPost Physics Lecture Notes