String Theory and Holographic Duality

Lecture Notes

LEC #	LECTURE NOTES
1	Emergence of Gravity (PDF)
2	Classical Black Hole Geometry (PDF)
3	Causal Structure of a Black Hole and Black Hole Temperature (PDF)
4	Physical Interpretation of Black Hole Temperature (PDF)
5	Black Hole Thermodynamics (PDF)
6	Holographic Principle (PDF - 1.2MB)
7	Structure of Large-N Expansion (PDF)
8	Large-N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I (PDF)
9	Large-N expansion as a String Theory, Part II (PDF)
10	Basics of String Theory and Light-cone Gauge (PDF)
11	String Theory in the Light-cone Gauge (PDF)
12	String Spectrum and Graviton (PDF)
13	Physics of D-branes, Part I (PDF)
14	Physics of D-branes, Part II (PDF)
15	Physics of D-branes, Part III (PDF)
16	Geometry of D-branes and AdS / CFT Conjecture (PDF)
17	More on AdS / CFT Duality (PDF)
18	General Aspects of the Duality (PDF)
19	Mass-dimension Relation (PDF)
20	Euclidean Correlation Functions: Two-point Functions (PDF)
21	Euclidean Correlation Functions: Higher-point Functions (PDF)
22	Computation of the Wilson Loop (PDF)
23	Duality at a Finite Temperature and Finite Chemical Potential (PDF - 1.3MB)
24	Holographic Entanglement Entropy (PDF)