Introduction to the Maldacena Conjecture on AdS/CFT

Abstract

These lectures do not at all provide a general review of this rapidly growing field. Instead a rather detailed account is presented of a number of the most elementary aspects.

71 pages, lecture notes, problems with page length fixed

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