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arxiv: gr-qc/0410049 · v3 · submitted 2004-10-11 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th

Spacetime in String Theory

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keywords spacetimetheorystringappearsboundarybriefcertainconditions
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We give a brief overview of the nature of spacetime emerging from string theory. This is radically different from the familiar spacetime of Einstein's relativity. At a perturbative level, the spacetime metric appears as ``coupling constants" in a two dimensional quantum field theory. Nonperturbatively (with certain boundary conditions), spacetime is not fundamental but must be reconstructed from a holographic, dual theory.

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