Gauge-gravity duality: foundations and applications
Ammon, Martin
Gauge-gravity duality: foundations and applications - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - xiii,532p.: 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Gauge/gravity duality creates new links between quantum theory and gravity. It has led to new concepts in mathematics and physics, and provides new tools to solve problems in many areas of theoretical physics. This book is the first textbook on this important topic, enabling graduate students and researchers in string theory and particle, nuclear and condensed matter physics to get acquainted with the subject. Focusing on the fundamental aspects as well as on the applications, this textbook guides readers through a thorough explanation of the central concepts of gauge/gravity duality. For the AdS/CFT correspondence, it explains in detail how string theory provides the conjectured map. Generalisations to less symmetric cases of gauge/gravity duality and their applications are then presented, in particular to finite temperature and density, hydrodynamics, QCD-like theories, the quark-gluon plasma and condensed matter systems. The textbook features a large number of exercises, with solutions available
9781107010345
Gauge Fields Physics
Gravity
Holography
Mathematical Physics
Black Holes
Quantum Phase Transition
QCD Density
Holographic Prediction
530.1435 / AMM
Gauge-gravity duality: foundations and applications - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. - xiii,532p.: 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Gauge/gravity duality creates new links between quantum theory and gravity. It has led to new concepts in mathematics and physics, and provides new tools to solve problems in many areas of theoretical physics. This book is the first textbook on this important topic, enabling graduate students and researchers in string theory and particle, nuclear and condensed matter physics to get acquainted with the subject. Focusing on the fundamental aspects as well as on the applications, this textbook guides readers through a thorough explanation of the central concepts of gauge/gravity duality. For the AdS/CFT correspondence, it explains in detail how string theory provides the conjectured map. Generalisations to less symmetric cases of gauge/gravity duality and their applications are then presented, in particular to finite temperature and density, hydrodynamics, QCD-like theories, the quark-gluon plasma and condensed matter systems. The textbook features a large number of exercises, with solutions available
9781107010345
Gauge Fields Physics
Gravity
Holography
Mathematical Physics
Black Holes
Quantum Phase Transition
QCD Density
Holographic Prediction
530.1435 / AMM
