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Description
This is a one-semester class about gauge/gravity duality (often called AdS/CFT) and its applications.
Course Curriculum
- What you need to know about string theory Unlimited
- D3-branes at small and large coupling Unlimited
- AdS/CFT from scratch, no strings Unlimited
- What holds up the throat? Unlimited
- How to defend yourself from a supersymmetric field theory Unlimited
- About the N = 4 SYM theory Unlimited
- Big picture of correspondence; strings and strong interactions Unlimited
- ’t Hooft counting Unlimited
- Scale and conformal invariance in field theory Unlimited
- CFT in D > 2 (cont.) Unlimited
- Geometry of AdS Unlimited
- Geometry of AdS (cont.); Poincaré patch; wave equation in AdS Unlimited
- Masses of fields and dimensions of operators; BF-allowed tachyons Unlimited
- How to compute two-point correlators of scalar operators Unlimited
- Preview of real-time issues; two-point functions in momentum space (cont.); more on low-mass2 fields in AdS Unlimited
- Three-point functions, anomalies; expectation values Unlimited
- Wilson loops Unlimited
- Wilson loops (cont.) Unlimited
- Pointlike probes of the bulk; Baryons and branes in AdS; ‘Non-spherical horizons’ Unlimited
- Brief survey of other examples of the correspondence (M2, M5, D1-D5, Dp, branes at singularities); a model of confinement Unlimited
- Confinement (cont.): how to measure the spectrum, proof of mass gap Unlimited
- Black hole mechanics, classical and quantum Unlimited
- AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory; equation of state, free energy and stress tensor Unlimited
- Hawking effect for interacting field theories and BH thermodynamics Unlimited
- AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory: Polyakov-Susskind loop, screening, quasinormal modes, Hawking-page transition Unlimited
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