Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1998-12-04
JHEP 9812:026,1998
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
22 pages, 4 figures, LateX; references added, minor corrections
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/1998/12/026
It was shown by Brown and Henneaux that the classical theory of gravity on AdS_3 has an infinite-dimensional symmetry group forming a Virasoro algebra. More recently, Giveon, Kutasov and Seiberg (GKS) constructed the corresponding Virasoro generators in the first-quantized string theory on AdS_3. In this paper, we explore various aspects of string theory on AdS_3 and study the relation between these two works. We show how semi-classical properties of the string theory reproduce many features of the AdS/CFT duality. Furthermore, we examine how the Virasoro symmetry of Brown and Henneaux is realized in string theory, and show how it leads to the Virasoro Ward identities of the boundary CFT. The Virasoro generators of GKS emerge naturally in this analysis. Our work clarifies several aspects of the GKS construction: why the Brown-Henneaux Virasoro algebra can be realized on the first-quantized Hilbert space, to what extent the free-field approximation is valid, and why the Virasoro generators act on the string worldsheet localized near the boundary of AdS_3. On the other hand, we find that the way the central charge of the Virasoro algebra is generated is different from the mechanism proposed by GKS.
Boer Jan de
Ooguri Hirosi
Robins Harlan
Tannenhauser Jonathan
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