| 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 |
