Marc Henneaux

Physicist, Person

1955 –

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Who is Marc Henneaux?

Marc Henneaux is a Belgian theoretical physicist and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He studied physics at the ULB and obtained his PhD in 1980 under the supervision of J. Géhéniau. Presently he serves as Director of the Service de Physique Théorique et Mathématique at the ULB and as the chair of the International Solvay Institutes for Physics and Chemistry. In 2000 he was awarded the Francqui Prize for Exact Sciences.

One of the earliest precursors of the AdS/CFT correspondence was discovered, already in 1986, by Marc Henneaux and J.D. Brown, who proved that the asymptotic symmetry algebra of D gravity reduces to a Virasoro algebra. Due to the fact that Virasoro algebra is the symmetry algebra of a 2D conformal field theory, the previous result is considered as a precursor of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

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Born
1955
Nationality
  • Belgium
Profession
Education
  • Université Libre de Bruxelles

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on July 23, 2013

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