| course | dates | credits |
| AdS/CFT | May 2 - Jun 9 | 5 |
| teachers | schedule | term |
| Laura Donnay | 10:00 - 11:30 | 3 |
Program:
- Introduction: What is AdS/CFT?
- Large N limit
- Conformal symmetry
- Primary fields, correlation functions, OPE
- Superconformal algebras
- Anti-de-Sitter space
- Penrose diagrams
- 4d N=4 SYM and strings on AdS5 x S5
- The holographic dictionary
- Field/Operator map
- Correlation functions
- Anomalies
- Holographic renormalization
- Weyl anomaly
- Wilson loops
- Non-conformal theories and confinement
- Confining theories
- RG flows
- Theories at finite temperature
- Thermal phase transitions
- The 1/2 BPS spectrum of N=4 SYM
- 5d N=8 gauged SUGRA
- Response functions and AdS/CMT
- Spectral functions and transport coefficients
- Real-time correlators from AdS/CFT
- The holographic superconductor
- Entanglement entropy
- The replica method
- Holographic entanglement entropy
- Quantum Field Theory course
- Supersymmetry course
- Conformal Field Theory course
- String Theory I course
- O. Aharony et al., "Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity", arXiv:hep-th/9905111
- A. Zaffaroni, "Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence", Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3571-3597
- J. Maldacena, "TASI 2003 lectures on AdS/CFT", arXiv:hep-th/0309246
- C. Herzog et al., "D-Branes on the Conifold and N=1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities", arXiv:hep-th/0205100
- C. Herzog, "Lectures on Holographic Superfluidity and Superconductivity", arXiv:0904.1975
Prerequisites:
Books:
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