Gauge-String Dualities and Some Applications
High Energy Physics - Theory
2008-03-11 v1
Abstract
The first part of these lectures contains an introductory review of the AdS/CFT duality and of its tests. Applications to thermal gauge theory are also discussed briefly. The second part is devoted to a review of gauge-string dualities based on various warped conifold backgrounds, and to their cosmological applications.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.1315,
title = {Gauge-String Dualities and Some Applications},
author = {Marcus K. Benna and Igor R. Klebanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1315},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
44 pages. Lectures delivered by I.R.K. at the Les Houches 2007 summer school ``String Theory and the Real World''