Course which focuses on holography

[JorisL]

Hi all,

Next period I'll be taking a course which focuses on holography this year (it's a different course every year pertaining to some (very/reasonably) active field in theoretical physics).

We have gotten some links to course materials we'll be dealing with

(1) The gauge/gravity duality, J. Maldacena, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1106.6073.pdf

(2) de Sitter musings, D. Anninos, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.3855.pdf

(3) Holographic Thermalization, http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2683.pdf

I was wondering if anybody knows of some extra resources pertaining this particular subject. So some extra references about this stuff.

In particular I would like some very basic yet rigorous introductory text going about specific motivations and ideas used in holography.

Regards,

Joris

 

[atyy]

http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905111
Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity
O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.6134
Introduction to Gauge/Gravity Duality
Joseph Polchinski

But as a biologist, I confess I barely understand them. I found these much more friendly:

http://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0518
Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics
John McGreevy

http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0602037
Gauge/gravity duality
Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski

 

[JorisL]

Great, I can certainly work with this stuff.

 

[metamathphys]

Hello JorisL! I am in a similar situation to yours, I think that if your QFT and String Theory is good (maybe I should say better than an average student) then chapter 13 of Kiritsis book "String Theory in a Nutshell" is a good place to look at. I feel OK with QFT but not with String Theory so I was not able to entirely decipher this chapter but it seems to me that it gives you a good overview of the subject. If you look at it please do let me know.

Good luck!

 

[JorisL]

Well it turns out we won't go into too much dept regarding actual calculations and delve into a general principles.
More or less give a flavor of the theory.
Thanks for the advise though.