Lecture: Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality

Lecture

Lecturer: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Johanna Erdmenger
Time: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10.oo – 12.oo, starting from 19th October
Place: Theresienstrasse 37, Room A 249

Examples classes

Tutor: Patrick Kerner
Time: Thursdays 14.00 – 16.oo, starting from 28th October
Place: Theresienstrasse 37, Room A 249

Final examination

There will be a Klausur (written exam) in January 2011. This is for those who have regularly submitted the solutions to the examples, and will help us to determine the mark on your report.

Recommended reviews and articles

• O. Aharony, S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri and Y. Oz, Large N field theories, string theory and gravity, Phys. Rept. 323 (2000) 183, [arXiv:hep-th/9905111].
• E. D'Hoker and D. Freedman, Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence, arXiv:hep-th/0201253.
• J. Petersen, Introduction to the Maldacena conjecture on AdS/CFT, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 14 (1999) 3597, [arXiv:hep-th/9902131].
• D. Son and A. Starinets, Viscosity, Black Holes, and Quantum Field Theory, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 57 (2007) 95, [arXiv:0704.0240 [hep-th]].
• J. Erdmenger, N. Evans, I. Kirsch and E. Threlfall, Mesons in Gauge/Gravity Duals - A Review, Eur. Phys. J. A 35 (2008) 81 [arXiv:0711.4467 [hep-th]].
• J. McGreevy, Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics, arXiv:0909.0518.

Downloads

• Overview of topics
• Examples I
• Examples II
• Examples III
• Examples IV
• Examples V
• Examples VI
• Examples VII
• Examples VIII