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I believe Maldacena's 1999 paper [1] proving the AdS/CFT correspondence is the most cited in theoretical physics in the last 50 years. It's an incredibly nice r
by semi-extrinsic 11y ago
I believe Maldacena's 1999 paper [1] proving the AdS/CFT correspondence is the most cited in theoretical physics in the last 50 years. It's an incredibly nice result that is almost impossible to explain to laymen. (You did a pretty good job.)
[1] https://scholar.google.no/scholar?cluster=13256884418314014212 https://scholar.google.no/scholar?cluster=132568844183140142...
- jessriedel 11y agoMaldacena conjectured a correspondence. It's never been proven.
- contravariant 11y agoHe managed to prove it quite rigorously for a specific example, which is the paper semi-extrinsic mentioned. He did indeed not prove the correspondence in general, but even this 'limited' example already turned out to be immensely useful.