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This string theory course focuses on holographic duality (also known as gauge / gravity duality or AdS / CFT)

FREE
This course includes
Hours of videos

666 years, 7 months

Units & Quizzes

24

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as a novel method of approaching and connecting a range of diverse subjects, including quantum gravity / black holes, QCD at extreme conditions, exotic condensed matter systems, and quantum information.

Course Currilcum

  • Emergence of Gravity Unlimited
  • Classical Black Hole Geometry Unlimited
  • Causal Structure of a Black Hole and Black Hole Temperature Unlimited
  • Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature Unlimited
  • Black Hole Thermodynamics Unlimited
  • Holographic Principle Unlimited
  • Structure of Large-N Expansion Unlimited
  • Large-N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I Unlimited
  • Large-N expansion as a String Theory, Part II Unlimited
  • Basics of String Theory and Light-cone Gauge Unlimited
  • String Theory in the Light-cone Gauge Unlimited
  • String Spectrum and Graviton Unlimited
  • Physics of D-branes, Part I Unlimited
  • Physics of D-branes, Part II Unlimited
  • Physics of D-branes, Part III Unlimited
  • Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture Unlimited
  • More on AdS / CFT Duality Unlimited
  • General Aspects of the Duality Unlimited
  • Mass-dimension Relation Unlimited
  • Euclidean Correlation Functions: Two-point Functions Unlimited
  • Euclidean Correlation Functions: Higher-point Functions Unlimited
  • Computation of the Wilson Loop Unlimited
  • Duality at a Finite Temperature and Finite Chemical Potential Unlimited
  • Holographic Entanglement Entropy Unlimited