Physics 234B: String Theory II

Spring 2013

List of Reading Assignments

Here is the list of the reading assignments for the discussion sessions of this course. They will be assigned to individual students on the first-come first-serve basis: Please review the papers and choose your favorite, and let me know about your choice via email. I will then confirm by return email that the paper is indeed yours (if it is still available). The presentations will start in the first week of April, on Thursdays 2:10-3pm and 4:10-5pm in 402 Le Conte Hall.

Thursday, April 4, 2:10pm:
1. M.R. Gaberdiel and R. Gopakumar, Minimal Model Holography, arXiv:1207.6697 [Jon Aytac].
2. A. Castro et al., The Gravity Dual of the Ising Model, arXiv:1111.1987 [Ken McElvain].

Thursday, April 4, 4:10pm:
3. E. Witten, Nonabelian Bosonization in Two Dimensions, Commun. Math. Phys. 92 (1984) 455 [Daniel Varjas].
4. E. Witten, On String Theory and Black Holes, Phys. Rev. D44 (1991) 314 [Ka Hei Leung].

Thursday, April 11, 2:10pm:
5. J.M. Drummond et al., Dual Superconformal Symmetry of Scattering Amplitudes in N=4 super Yang-Mills Theory, arXiv:0807.1095 [Mark Strother].
6. Z. Bern, J. Carrasco and H. Johansson, New Relations for Gauge-Theory Amplitudes, arXiv:0805.3993 [Kevin Grosvenor].

Thursday, April 11, 4:10pm:
7. J.D. Brown and M. Henneaux, Central Charges in the Canonical Realization of Asymptotic Symmetries: Example from Three-Dimensional Gravity, Commun. Math. Phys. 104 (1986) 207 [Philipp Dumitrescu].
8. J. McGreevy and H. Verlinde, Strings from Tachyons: The c=1 Matrix Reloaded, arXiv:hep-th/0304224 [Nathan Haouzi].

Thursday, April 18, 2:10pm:
12. D. Gaiotto, N=2 Dualities, arXiv:0904.2715.
10. J.M. Maldacena, J. Michelson and A. Strominger, Anti-de Sitter Fragmentation, arXiv:hep-th/9812073 [Byungmin Kang].

Thursday, April 18, 4:10pm:
11. A. Strominger, S.-T. Yau and E. Zaslow, Mirror Symmetry is T-Duality, arXiv:hep-th/9606040 [Amelia Spivak].
9. J.M. Maldacena, Eternal Black Holes in AdS, arXiv:hep-th/0106112 [Zach Fisher].

Thursday, April 25, 2:10pm:
13. G. Dvali et al., UV-Completion by Classicalization, arXiv:1010.1415 [Ziqi Yan].
14. S. Sachdev, Compressible Quantum Phases from Conformal Field Theories in 2+1 Dimensions, arXiv:1209.1637 [Lokman Tsui].

Thursday, April 25, 4:10pm:
15. S. Janiszewski and A. Karch, Non-relativistic Holography from Horava Gravity, arXiv:1211.0005 [Chien-I Chiang].
16. S. Janiszewski and A. Karch, String Theory Embeddings of Non-relativistic Field Theories and Their Holographic Horava Gravity Duals, arXiv:1211.0010 [Zach Stone].

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