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Solving quantum field theories via curved spacetimes
Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena
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Solving quantum
field theories via
curved spacetimes
Igor R. Klebanov and Juan M. Maldacena
Strongly interacting quantum field theories are notoriously difficult to work with, but new
information about some of them is emerging from their surprising correspondence with
gravitational theories.
Igor Klebanov is a professor of physics and associate director of the center for theoretical science at Princeton University in Princeton,
New Jersey. Juan Maldacena is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Eleven years ago several theorists proposed a re- responds to strong coupling makes the duality hard to prove
markable correspondence between two seemingly different because it is difficult to do putations in a strongly
kinds of It is often called a duality because