The infinite curvature limit of AdS/CFT

TL;DR

This paper explores the theoretical implications of taking the infinite curvature limit in the AdS/CFT correspondence, examining how it affects the duality between string theory in AdS space and super Yang-Mills theory.

Contribution

It provides kinematical speculations on the behavior and possible interpretations of the duality in the infinite curvature regime.

Findings

Insights into the behavior of the duality at infinite curvature

Potential implications for the nature of the dual quantum field theory

Theoretical framework for understanding the limit

Abstract

Some kinematical speculations on the infinite curvature limit of the conjectured duality of Maldacena between ten-dimensional strings living in $AdS_5\times S_5$ and a ordinary four-dimensional quantum field theory, namely ${\cal{N}}=4$ super Yang-Mills with gauge group SU(N) are given.