AdS/CFT Duality User Guide

• Main Author: Natsuume, Makoto (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 903
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Gravitation.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Phase transformations (Statistical physics).; Condensed materials.; Condensed matter.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Quantum Gases and Condensates.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

This book describes applications of the AdS/CFT duality to the "real world." The AdS/CFT duality is an idea that originated from string theory and is a powerful tool for analyzing strongly-coupled gauge theories using classical gravitational theories. In recent years, it has been shown tha...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• General relativity and black holes
• Black holes and thermodynamics
• Strong interaction and gauge theories
• The road to AdS/CFT
• The AdS spacetime
• AdS/CFT - equilibrium
• AdS/CFT - adding probes
• Basics of nonequilibrium physics
• AdS/CFT - non-equilibrium
• Other AdS spacetimes
• Applications to quark-gluon plasma
• Basics of phase transition
• AdS/CFT - phase transition.