Rudiments of Holography

Abstract

An elementary introduction to Maldacena's AdS/CFT correspondence is given, with some emphasis in the Fefferman-Graham construction. This is based on lectures given by one of us (E.A.) at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid.

60 pages, additional misprints corrected, references added

References in corpus (3)

• The dS/CFT Correspondence
• Weyl Cohomology and the Effective Action for Conformal Anomalies
• Les Houches Lectures on De Sitter Space

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Higher order singletons, partially massless fields and their boundary values in the ambient approach
• Notes on the ambient approach to boundary values of AdS gauge fields
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• The one-loop vacuum energy and RG flow induced by double-trace operators in AdS/CFT and dS/CFT correspondence
• Conformal invariant powers of the Laplacian, Fefferman-Graham ambient metric and Ricci gauging
• Higher Spin Interacting Quantum Field Theory and Higher Order Conformal Invariant Lagrangians
• Codimension Two Holography
• The Dirichlet Obstruction in AdS/CFT
• Examining Instabilities Due to Driven Scalars in AdS