String theory on AdS3

CARMEN A. NÚÑEZ

Rio de Janeiro

Conferencia; 4th International Winter Conference on Mathematical Methods in Physics (WC 2004); 2004

CBPF

This lecture is a short review of string theory on three dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime. We critically examine the important progress achieved in recent years, emphasizing the relevance of the AdS/CFT correspondence in our comprehension of the theory, and pointing out some issues which remain unclear. We discuss various aspects of the Feigin-Fuchs construction of this nonrational conformal field theory. Published in PoS (WC2004) 001.