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EFI-98-22, RI-4-98, IASSNS-HEP-98-52 hep-th/9806194 Comments on String Theory on AdS3 Amit Giveon1, David Kutasov2,3, Nathan Seiberg4 1Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel 2Department of Physics, University of Chicago, 5640 S. Ellis Av., Chicago, IL 60637, USA 3Department of Physics of Elementary Particles, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 4School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, NJ, USA We study string propagation on AdS3 times a compact space from an “old fashioned” worldsheet point of view of perturbative string theory. We derive the spacetime CFT and its Virasoro and current algebras, thus establishing the conjectured AdS/CFT correspon- dence for this case in the full string theory. Our results have implications for the extreme IR limit of the D1 D5 system, as well as to 2+1 dimensional BTZ black holes and their − arXiv:hep-th/9806194v2 1 Jul 1998 Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. 6/98 1. Introduction The purpose of this paper is to study string propagation on curved spacetime manifolds + that include AdS3. We will mostly discuss the Euclidean version also known as H3 = SL(2, C)/SU(2) (in Appendix A we will comment on the Lorentzian signature version of AdS3, which is the SL(2,R) group manifold). At low energies the theory reduces to 2 + 1 dimensional gravity with a negative cosmological constant coupled (in general) to a large collection of matter fields. The low energy action is 1 2 = d3x√g(R + ) + ... (1.1) S 16πl l2 p Z but we will go beyond this low energy approximation.
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