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hep-th2002★ 126 cited

What is the gravity dual of a chiral primary?

Oleg Lunin, Samir D. Mathur, Ashish Saxena

In the AdS/CFT correspondence a chiral primary is described by a supergravity solution with mass equaling angular momentum. For AdS_3 X S^3 we are led to consider three special fam…

hep-th2002★ 5 cited

Brane World Gravity in an AdS Black Hole

Richard C. Brower, Samir D. Mathur, Chung-I Tan

We consider a model of brane world gravity in the context of non-conformal non-SUSY matter. In particular we modify the earlier strong coupling solution to the glueball spectrum in…

hep-th2002★ 71 cited

Rotating deformations of AdS_3\times S^3, the orbifold CFT and strings in the pp-wave limit

Oleg Lunin, Samir D. Mathur

We construct an exact metric which at short distances is the metric of massless particles in 5+1 spacetime (moving along a diameter of the sphere) and is AdS_3\times S^3 at infinit…

hep-th2002★ 33 cited

A proposal to resolve the black hole information paradox

Samir D. Mathur

The entropy and information puzzles arising from black holes cannot be resolved if quantum gravity effects remain confined to a microscopic scale. We use concrete computations in n…

hep-th2002★ 20 cited

Scalar propagator in the pp-wave geometry obtained from AdS_5 X S^5

Samir D. Mathur, Ashish Saxena, Yogesh K. Srivastava

We compute the propagator for massless and massive scalar fields in the metric of the pp-wave. The retarded propagator for the massless field is found to stay confined to the surfa…

hep-th2002★ 273 cited

Statistical interpretation of Bekenstein entropy for systems with a stretched horizon

Oleg Lunin, Samir D. Mathur

For the 2-charge extremal holes in string theory we show that the Bekenstein entropy obtained from the area of the stretched horizon has a statistical interpretation as a `coarse g…