AdS/CFT correspondence (Maldacena conjecture)
Correspondencia AdS/CFT (conjetura de Maldacena)
- Date
- 1997 · confidence high
- Place
- Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Juan Martín Maldacena
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A conjecture relating a string theory in anti-de Sitter space to a conformal quantum field theory without gravity on its boundary. It is the best-studied example of the holographic principle.
Maldacena, Argentine-trained, published the conjecture at Harvard (November 1997); it remains rigorously unproven.
What it led to
- Study of quark–gluon plasma via holographic duality
- Applications in condensed matter and black hole entropy
- Advances in quantum gravity