| course | dates | credits |
| AdS/CFT | Apr 22 - Apr 24 Apr 28 - May 22 |
5 |
| teachers | schedule | term |
| Laura Donnay | 08:30 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 |
3 |
Program:
- Introduction: What is AdS/CFT?
- Conformal symmetry
- Primary fields, correlation functions, OPE
- State-operator correspondence, unitarity bounds, embedding space formalism
- Comments on 2d CFTs and superconformal algebras
- Anti-de-Sitter space
- Conformal structure, Penrose diagrams, particles in AdS
- The holographic dictionary
- Formulating the correspondence
- Field/Operator map
- Correlation functions
- Holographic renormalization
- Holographic renormalization method
- Weyl anomaly
- Large N limits in gauge theory
- 4d N=4 SYM and strings on AdS5 x S5
- Tests of the AdS5/CFT4 correspondence
- Matching of the spectrum
- Low points correlators
- Conformal anomaly
- Wilson loops
- Non-conformal theories and confinement
- RG flows
- Confining theories
- Theories at finite temperature
- Linear response and hydrodynamics
- Quantum Field Theory I & II
- Supersymmetry I
- Conformal Field Theory
- String Theory
- 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
- Ammon & Erdmenger, "Gauge/Gravity Duality: Foundations and Applications"
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Online Resources:
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AdS_CFT (1).pdf | 1.3 MB | May 6 2025 9:56 AM |