8 821 F2008 Applied String Theory Approximate Course Outline McGreevy November 26 2008 1 what we know about string theory 2 D3 branes at small and large gs N MAGOO hep th 9905111 1 1 3 AdS CFT from scratch no strings Horowitz Polchinski gr qc 0602037 4 what holds up the throat Denef Kachru Polchinski hep th 0701050 5 how to defend yourself from a supersymmetric field theory Ed H DZF hep th 0201253 2 4 6 about the N 4 SYM theory Ed H DZF hep th 0201253 3 7 big picture of correspondence MAGOO hep th 9905111 3 1 2 strings and Strong Interactions Maldacena TASI 2003 hep th 0309246 2 3 0 8 t Hooft counting Coleman N1 in Aspects of Symmetry or linked on course website main page MAGOO hep th 9905111 1 2 Maldacena TASI 2003 hep th 0309246 2 9 scale and conformal invariance in field theory Ginsparg hep th 9108028 1 MAGOO hepth 9905111 2 1 Callan Introduction to Conformal Invariance linked on course website main page perhaps Nishida Son 0706 3746 cond mat 10 CFT in D 2 cont d same refs as previous lecture 11 geometry of AdS e g MAGOO hep th 9905111 2 2 Kiritsis Appendix K hep th 0309246 3 Petersen hep th 9902131 2 12 geometry of AdS cont d Petersen hep th 9902131 2 wave equation in AdS hep th 0309246 3 13 masses of fields and dimensions of operators hep th 0309246 4 MAGOO 3 3 BF allowed tachyons 14 how to compute two point correlators of scalar operators hep th 0309246 4 MAGOO 3 3 primary sources GKP hep th 9802109 Witten hep th 9802150 2 4 2 5 15 preview of real time issues two point functions in momentum space cont d same refs as previous lecture more on low mass2 fields in AdS Klebanov Witten hep th 9905104 1 16 three point functions anomalies MAGOO 3 2 2 3 3 2 hep th 0201253 8 4 8 5 primary sources Freedman Mathur Matusis Rastelli hep th 9804058 Witten hep th 9802150 2 4 2 5 expectation values Klebanov Witten hep th 9905104 p 9 17 Wilson loops Kiritsis 13 9 MAGOO 3 5 18 Wilson loops cont d same refs plus hep th 9904191 hep th 9809188 19 pointlike probes of the bulk MAGOO 3 5 2 Graham Witten hep th 9901021 Fidkowski et al hep th 0306170 baryons and branes in AdS MAGOO 4 2 hep th 0003075 nonspherical horizons MAGOO 4 1 20 brief survey of other examples of the correspondence M2 M5 D1 D5 Dp branes at singularities MAGOO 4 1 6 1 IMSY hep th 9802042 a model of confinement MAGOO 6 2 hep th 0306246 6 21 confinement cont d how to measure the spectrum proof of mass gap hep th 9803131 3 3 MAGOO 6 2 hep th 0306246 6 22 black hole mechanics classical and quantum Jacobson 2 3 Townsend Black Holes grqc 9707012 Chapter 6 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 Jacobson 3 SusskindLindesay ch 3 25 AdS black holes and thermal gauge theory Polyakov Susskind loop screening quasinormal modes MAGOO 3 6 Hawking Page transition hep th 9803131 2 Literature Unfortunately there isn t a textbook yet which follows the path in store for us Books and papers which we may find useful include Juan Maldacena TASI lectures on AdS CFT hep th 0309246 MAGOO Large N Field Theories String Theory and Gravity hep th 9905111 Eric D Hoker and Dan Freedman Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS CFT correspondence hep th 0201253 Igor Klebanov TASI lectures Introduction to the AdS CFT correspondence hep th 0009139 Lenny Susskind James Lindesay An Introduction to Black Holes Information and the String Theory Revolution The Holographic Universe World Scientific 2005 Daniela Bigatti Lenny Susskind TASI Lectures on the Holographic Principle hep th 0002044 Jacobson Introductory Lectures on Black Hole Thermodynamics http www glue umd edu tajac BHTlectures lectures ps Juan Maldacena Black holes in string theory hep th 9607235 Dam Son and Andrei Starinets Viscosity Black Holes and Quantum Field Theory 0704 0240 hep th Pavel Kovtun lectures on hydrodynamics to appear hopefully before the end of the semester Elias Kiritsis String Theory in a Nutshell Princeton 2007 Beckers Schwarz String Theory and M Theory A Modern Introduction Cambridge 3