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AdS$_2$ holography and the SYK model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-02-18 v6 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

These are lecture notes based on a series of lectures presented at the XIII Modave Summer School in Mathematical physics aimed at PhD students and young postdocs. The goal is to give an introduction to some of the recent developments in understanding holography in two bulk dimensions, and its connection to microscopics of near extremal black holes. The first part reviews the motivation to study, and the problems (and their interpretations) with holography for AdS2_2 spaces. The second part is about the Jackiw-Teitelboim theory and nearly-AdS2_2 spaces. The third part introduces the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model, reviews some of the basic calculations and discusses what features make the model exciting.

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@article{arxiv.1711.08482,
  title  = {AdS$_2$ holography and the SYK model},
  author = {Gábor Sárosi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.08482},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Lecture notes, 58 pages. v6: further small corrections

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