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arxiv: hep-th/9901076 · v1 · submitted 1999-01-18 · ✦ hep-th

S-Matrices from AdS Spacetime

Joseph Polchinski This is my paper
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keywords spacetimeflatgaugelarge-nlimittheorybecomescorrelator
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In the large-N limit of d=4, N=4 gauge theory, the dual AdS spacetime becomes flat. We identify a gauge theory correlator whose large-N limit is the flat spacetime S-matrix.

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