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Connectedness Of The Boundary In The AdS/CFT Correspondence

Edward Witten, S. -T. Yau

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/9910245

Abstract

Let M be a complete Einstein manifold of negative curvature, and assume that (as in the AdS/CFT correspondence) it has a Penrose compactification with a conformal boundary N of positive scalar curvature. We show that under these conditions, Hn(M;Z)=0 and in particular N must be connected. These results resolve some puzzles concerning the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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