What does'AdS' stand for in the AdS/CFT correspondence?
Average Dimensional State
Anti-de Sitter Space
Atomic Displacement Sequence
Advanced Dynamic Simulation
Answer
AdS stands for Anti-de Sitter Space. In the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, AdS space is a hypothetical curved spacetime that is used as the bulk in a duality relationship with a conformal field theory (CFT) living on its boundary.
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