Gauge/Gravity Duality
Foundations and Applications

The first textbook on this important topic, for graduate students and researchers in particle and condensed matter physics.

Martin Ammon (Author), Johanna Erdmenger (Author)

9781107010345, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 April 2015

548 pages, 72 b/w illus. 156 exercises
24.6 x 19.1 x 3 cm, 1.32 kg

'Written by experts in the field, this book is remarkable for its broad survey of one of the most cutting-edge topics in theoretical physics of the past ten years.' Nick Evans, University of Southampton

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 online at www.cambridge.org/9781107010345.

Part I. Prerequisites: 1. Elements of field theory
2. Elements of gravity
3. Symmetries in quantum field theory
4. Introduction to superstring theory
Part II. Gauge/Gravity Duality: 5. AdS/CFT correspondence
6. Tests of the AdS/CFT correspondence
7. Integrability and scattering amplitudes
8. Further examples of AdS/CFT
9. Holographic renormalisation group flows
10. Duality with D-branes in supergravity
11. Finite temperature and density
Part III. Applications: 12. Linear response and hydrodynamics
13. QCD and holography: confinement and chiral symmetry breaking
14. QCD and holography: finite temperature and density
15. Strongly coupled condensed matter systems
Appendixes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN], Condensed matter physics [liquid state & solid state physics PHFC], Physics [PH], Mathematics & science [P]