Martin Ammon (Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany), Johanna Erdmenger (Munich Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik)

Gauge/Gravity Duality

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Gauge/gravity duality presents new links between quantum theory and gravity, and provides new tools to solve problems in many areas of theoretical physics. This book is the first textbook on this important topic, enabling graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics to get acquainted with the subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 548
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 208mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1388g
• ISBN-13: 9781107010345
• ISBN-10: 1107010349
• Artikelnr.: 41493657

Autorenporträt

Martin Ammon is a Junior Professor at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, leading a research group on gauge/gravity duality.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Prerequisites: 1. Elements of field theory
2. Elements of gravity
3. Symmetries in quantum field theory
4. Introduction to superstring theory
Part II. Gauge/Gravity Duality: 5. AdS/CFT correspondence
6. Tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence
7. Integrability and scattering amplitudes
8. Further examples of AdS/CFT
9. Holographic renormalisation group flows
10. Duality with D-branes in supergravity
11. Finite temperature and density
Part III. Applications: 12. Linear response and hydrodynamics
13. QCD and holography: confinement and chiral symmetry breaking
14. QCD and holography: finite temperature and density
15. Strongly coupled condensed matter systems
Appendixes
References
Index.