8.821 | Fall 2008 | Graduate

String Theory

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Lecture 01: What you need to know about string theory
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Lecture 02: String theory summary continued
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Lecture 03: The decoupling argument; AdS/CFT without string theory, a discovery with hindsight
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Lecture 04
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Lecture 5: SUSY Self-Defense
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Lecture 06: Supersymmetric Lagrangians and Basic Checks of AdS/CFT
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Lecture 07 Preview of AdS–CFT Correspondence; String Theory from Gauge Fields; and t’ Hooft Counting
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Lecture 8: Large N Counting
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Lecture 09: Preview of Strings in N = 4 SYM; Hierarchy of Scaling dimensions; Conformal Symmetry in QFT
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Lecture 10: CFTs in D > 2
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Lecture 11: CFT continued; geometry of AdS
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Lecture 12: Boundary of AdS (cont.); Poincaré patch; wave equation in AdS
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Lecture 13: Masses of fields and dimensions of operators
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Lecture 14: Wave equation in AdS, Green’s function
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Lecture 15: 2-Point Functions in P-space; Introduction to 3-Point Functions
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Lecture 16: Correlators of more than two operators
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Lecture 17: More on 3-point functions, the chiral anomaly, and Wilson loops
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Lecture 18: Wilson Loops
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Lecture 19
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Lecture 20: The Wider World of Gauge/Gravity Duality
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Lecture 21: Confinement, continued
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Lecture 22: Black Hole Mechanics is Thermodynamics
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Lecture 23: Black Hole Thermodynamics
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Lecture 24: Blackhole Thermodynamics (Con’d)
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Lecture 25: Thermal aspects of N = 4 SYM

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