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String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Instructor: Prof. Hong Liu
Term: Fall 2014
Level: Graduate
What's inside: 24 videos · 1 problem set · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 56 other files · 3 web pages
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String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 1: Emergence of Gravity

Lecture 2: Classical Black Hole Geometry

Lecture 3: Causal Structure of a Black Hole and Black Hole Temperature

Lecture 4: Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature

Lecture 5: Black Hole Thermodynamics

Lecture 6: Holographic Principle

Lecture 7: Structure of Large-N Expansion

Lecture 8: Large-N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I

Lecture 9: Large-N expansion as a String Theory, Part II

Lecture 10: Basics of String Theory and Light-cone Gauge

Lecture 11: String Theory in the Light-Cone Gauge

Lecture 12: String Spectrum and Graviton

Lecture 13: Physics of D-branes, Part I

Lecture 14: Physics of D-branes, Part II

Lecture 15: Physics of D-branes, Part III

Lecture 16: Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture

Lecture 17: More on AdS / CFT Duality

Lecture 18: General Aspects of the Duality

Lecture 19: Mass-dimension Relation

Lecture 20: Euclidean Correlation Functions: Two-point Functions

Lecture 21: Euclidean Correlation Functions: Higher-point Functions

Lecture 22: Computation of the Wilson Loop

Lecture 23: Duality at a Finite Temperature and Finite Chemical Potential

Lecture 24: Holographic Entanglement Entropy