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Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality

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The AdS/CFT correspondence and its generalizations to gauge/gravity duality are a major recent development within theoretical physics. We begin these lectures with an overview over the prerequisites necessary for understanding the correspondence. Then we move on to discussing the AdS/CFT correspondence itself, as well as giving an important test of the conjectured duality. Finally, as an example for gauge/gravity duality, we discuss the case of finite temperature and density, which is the starting point for many applications.

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I am grateful to Martin Ammon, to Hai Ngo and to Oliver Schlotterer for help with preparing this manuscript. Moreover I would like to thank my tutors at the school, Martin Ammon, Viviane Grass, Shu Lin, Hai Ngo and Andy O’Bannon.

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Erdmenger, J. (2012). Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality. In: Baumgartl, M., Brunner, I., Haack, M. (eds) Strings and Fundamental Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 851. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25947-0_3

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