8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 1: Emergence of Gravity

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu discusses the concept of emergent gravity, and proves the Weinberg-witten no go theorem which forbids existence of massless spin-2 particles. The beginning of the lecture is devoted to course information.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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