Anti De Sitter Space
The de sitter and anti de sitter sightseeing tour ugo moschella dipartimento di fisica e matematica universit a dellinsubria 22100 como infn sezione di milano italia 1 introduction while celebrating the 100th anniversary of the discovery of special relativity 1 it may not be inappropriate to open a window on the de sitter universes as their importance in contemporary physics is.
Anti de sitter space. Anti de sitter space and de sitter space are named after willem de sitter 18721934 professor of astronomy at leiden university and director of the leiden observatory. This is a pedagogic account of some of the global properties of anti de sitter spacetime with a view to their application to the adscft correspondence. Willem de sitter and albert einstein worked together closely in leiden in the 1920s on the spacetime structure of the universe. Black holes anti de sitter space and topological strings abstract this thesis is devoted to the study of black holes in string theory their connec tion to two and three dimensional anti de sitter space and topological strings.
The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam forces of nature with brian cox bbc duration. It is called an n p dimensional anti de sitter space of constant curvature c and of index p. Particular care is taken over the distinction between anti de sitter and its covering space. The mean curvature h of m is defined as in the case of riemannian manifolds.
Bbc recommended for you. De sitter space and anti de sitter space are named after willem de sitter 18721934 professor of astronomy at leiden university and director of the leiden observatory. Written version of lectures given at 2nd. We start by proposing a relation between supersymmetric black holes in four and ve dimensions as well as connections between multi centered black holes in four.
Willem de sitter and albert einstein worked closely together in leiden in the 1920s on the spacetime structure of our universe. Anti de sitter spacetime and its uses. Der anti de sitter raum ads ist eine raumzeit mit negativer kosmologischer konstantedie namensgebung erfolgte als gegenstueck positive kosmologische konstante zum de sitter raum benannt nach dem niederlaendischen astronomen willem de sitterdie energieform des anti de sitter raumes ist im gegensatz zum de sitter raum anziehenddies entspricht der ueblichen wirkung von gravitation. Arxivhep th9802150v2 6 apr 1998 hep th9802150 iassns hep 98 15 anti de sitter space and holography edward witten school of natural sciences institute for advanced study olden lane princeton nj 08540 usa recently it has been proposed by maldacena that large nlimits of certain conformal eld theories in ddimensions can be described in terms of supergravity and string theory on the.