Aspects of holography and irrelevant deformations

Schedule

Wednesdays, 10:00–11:30 | Fridays, 12:00-13:30, Ningzhai, Room W11. Online on Zhumu, ID: 138 402 2750, password: 951413

Syllabus and lecture notes

1. Week 1 Effective string theory

   Notes: Lecture 1

2. Week 2 A simple toy model of quantum gravity

   Notes: Lecture 2

3. Week 3 Massless S-matrices in 2d

   Notes: Lecture 3

4. Week 4 The S-matrix

   Notes: Lecture 4

5. Week 5 Consequences of the S-matrix

   Notes: Lecture 5

6. Week 6 The TT operator

   Notes: Lecture 6

7. Week 7 Current deformations and integrability

   Notes: Lecture 7

8. Week 8 The TT spectrum

   Notes: Lecture 8

9. Week 9 TT and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, part 1

   Notes: Lecture 9

10. Week 10 TT and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, part 2

    Notes: Lecture 10

11. Week 11 TT and Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity, part 3

    Notes: Lecture 11

12. Week 12 TT as a non-critical string

    Notes: Lecture 12