8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 8: Large-N Expansion as a String Theory, Part I

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu connects the topological expansion of a matrix field theory in 1 / N to the perturbative expansion of a string theory. The structure of perturbative expansion of a string theory is explained from first principle.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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