1 |
What you need to know about string theory |
2 |
D3-branes at small and large coupling |
3 |
AdS/CFT from scratch, no strings |
4 |
What holds up the throat? |
5 |
How to defend yourself from a supersymmetric field theory |
6 |
About the N = 4 SYM theory |
7 |
Big picture of correspondence; strings and strong interactions |
8 |
't Hooft counting |
9 |
Scale and conformal invariance in field theory |
10 |
CFT in D > 2 (cont.) |
11 |
Geometry of AdS |
12 |
Geometry of AdS (cont.); Poincaré patch; wave equation in AdS |
13 |
Masses of fields and dimensions of operators; BF-allowed tachyons |
14 |
How to compute two-point correlators of scalar operators |
15 |
Preview of real-time issues; two-point functions in momentum space (cont.); more on low-mass2 fields in AdS |
16 |
Three-point functions, anomalies; expectation values |
17 |
Wilson loops |
18 |
Wilson loops (cont.) |
19 |
Pointlike probes of the bulk; Baryons and branes in AdS; 'Non-spherical horizons' |
20 |
Brief survey of other examples of the correspondence (M2, M5, D1-D5, Dp, branes at singularities); a model of confinement |
21 |
Confinement (cont.): how to measure the spectrum, proof of mass gap |
22 |
Black hole mechanics, classical and quantum |
23 |
AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory; equation of state, free energy and stress tensor |
24 |
Hawking effect for interacting field theories and BH thermodynamics |
25 |
AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory: Polyakov-Susskind loop, screening, quasinormal modes, Hawking-page transition |