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12-06-2007, 04:38 PM
Re: AdS/CFT Correspondance

Here you go Lakshya: an Introduction to AdS-CFT.

Here's the abstract:
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These lectures present an introduction to AdS-CFT, and are intended both for begining and more advanced graduate students, which are familiar with quantum field theory and have a working knowledge of their basic methods. Familiarity with supersymmetry, general relativity and string theory is helpful, but not necessary, as the course intends to be as self-contained as possible. I will introduce the needed elements of field and gauge theory, general relativity, supersymmetry, supergravity, strings and conformal field theory. Then I describe the basic AdS-CFT scenario, of ${\cal N}=4 $ Super Yang-Mills's relation to string theory in $AdS_5\times S_5$, and applications that can be derived from it: 3-point functions, quark-antiquark potential, finite temperature and scattering processes, the pp wave correspondence and spin chains. I also describe some general properties of gravity duals of gauge theories.
From what I gather, these notes are written for students with a firm grasp of quantum field theory, but not of relativity.
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