Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence / Horatiu Nastase.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.Description: xviii, 438 p. : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: - 9781107085855
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Elements of quantum field theory and gauge theory --
2. Basics of general relativity. Anti-de Sitter space --
3. Basics of supersymmetry --
4. Basics of supergravity --
5. Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction --
6. Black holes and p-branes --
7. String theory actions and spectra --
8. Elements of conformal field theory --
9. D-branes --
10. The AdS/CFT correspondence: motivation, definition and spectra --
11. Witten prescription and 3-point correlator calculations --
12. Holography in Lorentzian signature: Poincare and global coordinates --
13. Solitonic objects in AdS/CFT --
14. Quarks and the Wilson loop --
15. Finite temperature and N = 4 SYM plasmas --
16. Scattering processes and gravitational shockwave limit --
17. The pp wave correspondence --
18. Spin chains --
19. Other conformal cases --
20. The 3 dimensional ABJM model vs. AdS4 and CP3 --
21. Gravity duals --
22. Holographic renormalization --
23. RG flow between fixed points --
24. Phenomenological gauge-gravity duality I: AdS/QCD --
25. Phenomenological gauge-gravity duality II: AdS/CMT --
26. Gluon scattering: The Alday-Maldacena prescription --
27. Holographic entanglement entropy: the Ryu-Takayanagi prescription --
References --
Index.
A pedagogical and self-contained introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence aimed at graduate students and researchers across theoretical physics.
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