Beijing Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Applications

18th September ~ 14th December, 2023

Quantum Field Theory, General Relativity, and some knowledge of AdS/CFT

The class will be divided into three parts covering the following topics.

Part I: The TTbar deformation
Week 1: Motivation and the TTbar deformation
Week 2: The spectrum and torus partition function
Week 3: The TTbar deformation of a free scalar
Week 4: The TTbar deformation of a symmetric product orbifold
Week 5: Alternative formulations of TTbar deformed QFTs

Part II: Double-trace holography
Week 6: Brief introduction to AdS3/CFT2
Week 7: Cutoff AdS holography and mixed boundary conditions
Week 8: Holographic entanglement entropy

Part III: Single-trace holography
Week 9: Brief introduction to string theory in AdS3
Week 10: TTbar from string theory, the spectrum and correlation functions
Week 11: TTbar from supergravity, black hole entropy and thermodynamics
Week 12: The TTbar partition function from supergravity

The lecture notes will be posted at https://lui-apolo.github.io/holography-TTbar.html

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