1104.2604 (Luca Mazzucato)

Superstrings in AdS    [PDF]

Luca Mazzucato

This is a comprehensive review of the worldsheet techniques for the
quantization of type IIB superstring theory on the AdS_5 x S^5 background,
using the pure spinor formalism. Particular emphasis is devoted to AdS/CFT
applications, with several examples worked out in details. The review is
self-contained and pedagogical. Table of contents: 1) Introduction; 2)
Generalities; 3) Supercoset sigma models; 4) Quantum effective action and
conformal invariance; 5) String spectrum; 6) Integrability.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2604