String Theory on AdS_3 and Symmetric Products
arXiv:hep-th/0012117 · doi:10.1002/1521-3978(200105)49:4/6<409::AID-PROP409>3.3.CO;2-9
Abstract
We consider string theory on a background of the form AdS_3 x N. Our aim is to give a description of the dual CFT in a general set up. With the requirement that we have N=2 supersymmetry in spacetime, we provide evidence that the dual CFT is in the moduli space of a certain symmetric product M^p/S_p. On the way to show this, we reproduce some recent results on string propagation on AdS_3 and extend them to the superstring.
10 pages, LaTeX, uses buckow.sty, contribution to the proceedings of the workshop "The Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions", Berlin, October 2000; v2: added references