Abstract
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 Bekenstein-Hawking entropy.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 733-780 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Journal | Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| State | Published - Jul 1998 |