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Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence
Event description
Prof David Berenstein, from the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), is visiting the Higgs Centre till September 24th. He will be delivering a series of three lectures on :
Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence
Abstract:
I will give an introductory set of lectures on the AdS/CFT correspondence. The main focus is to understand how the AdS/CFT dictionary is derived from first principles. Also, I will showcase how some apparent paradoxes for the consistency of the correspondence are resolved with modern quantum information ideas.
Content :
- Motivating the AdS/CFT correspondence
- Solutions of the wave equations in AdS
- Extrapolation to the boundary and boundary conditions
- Conformal Field theory: representations of the conformal group and the operator state correspondence
- Deriving the AdS/CFT dictionary and the importance of Large N
- Conserved currents and gauge fields in the bulk
- String states and spin chains
- D-branes in AdS and their duals
- Causality and quantum error correction
- (As time permits): Some basic aspects of black holes in AdS/CFT
Note: Ideally attendants will have some previous exposure to General Relativity and to Quantum Field Theory of gauge fields.
Location : Higgs Centre lecture theatre
Date and time :
- 1st lecture : Monday, September 16th, 2.10-4.10pm
- 2nd lecture : Tuesday, September 17th, 9-11am
- 3rd lecture : Friday, September 20th, 9-11am
Lectures
Lecture 1
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Lecture 2
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Lecture 3
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Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence
Lecturer(s)
- David Berenstein(
- University of California Santa Barbara
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