8.821 | Fall 2014 | Graduate

String Theory and Holographic Duality

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Lecture 9: Large-N expansion as a String Theory, Part II

Description: In this lecture, Prof. Liu wraps up the mathematical connection between 1 / N expansion of a large N matrix field theory with the perturbative expansion of a string theory. The second half of this lecture starts Part 2 of the course, the first topic of which is an introduction to string theory.

Instructor: Hong Liu

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