Review Article

In-Medium Effects in the Holographic Quark-Gluon Plasma

Table 1

A few examples for entries of the AdS/CFT dictionary. Precise operator-field pairings can be found, for example, in [3, 4, 8, 9].

Supergravity on A d S 5 × S 5 4 dim. 𝒩 = 4 CFT

boundary of A d S 5 field theory domain
isometry of A d S 5 conformal symmetry
isometry of S 5 R-symmetry
weak coupling in 𝑔 s strong coupling in 𝜆
variations in radial coordinate renormalization group flow
field boundary value 𝜙 0 source for operator 𝒪
field mass 𝑚 conformal weight Δ
IR normalizable mode 𝒪 of dual operator
IR nonnormalizable mode source of dual operator
quantum corrections of 𝑂 ( 𝑔 s ) corrections in 1 / 𝑁
stringy corrections of 𝑂 ( 𝛼 ) corrections in 1 / 𝜆