Symmetries of Maldacena-Wilson Loops from Integrable String Theory

• Main Author: Münkler, Hagen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Mathematical physics.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

The book discusses hidden symmetries in the Anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) duality. This duality is a modern concept that asserts an exact duality between conformally invariant quantum field theories and string theories in higher dimensional Anti-de Sitter spaces, and in this way pr...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Symmetries, Fields and Loops
• Symmetric Space Models
• Minimal Surfaces in AdS
• Away from Strong Coupling
• Semisymmetric Space Models
• Minimal Surfaces in Superspace
• Conclusion and Outlook.