Reading Assignments for
Physics 234B: String Theory II
Quantum Gravity and Unifications
Spring 2015
This is the list of the reading assignment choices, with the dates of their intended presentation in the discussion sessions. They will be assigned to the students officially registered for the course, on the first-come first-serve basis. Please review the list, choose one paper, and send me an email specifying your choice to horava@berkeley.edu). I will then confirm by a return email whether the paper has been assigned to you.
Once you read the paper assigned to you, you will prepare a two-page typed summary of your understanding of its main points, and you will present the summary in a talk during the corresponding discussion session. Each talk will be 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions from the audience. The discussion sessions will be on Thursdays, 3:40-4:30pm, or Fridays, 2:10-3pm -- all of them in our usual lecture room 402 Le Conte Hall. If anyone anticipates having time conflicts with the scheduled presentation times, please let me know by email asap.
Thursday, April 2:
A.H. Chamseddine and A. Connes,
Space-time from the Spectral Point of View, arXiv:1008.0985 (Christian Schmid).
A.H. Chamseddine, A. Connes and V. Mukhanov, Geometry and the Quantum: Basics, arXiv:1411.0977 (Jonathan Gleason).
Thursday, April 9:
A. Almeiri, D. Marolf, J. Polchinski and J. Sully, Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?, arXiv:1207.3123 (Yoon Seok Chae).
A. Almeiri, D. Marolf, J. Polchinski, D. Stanford and J. Sully, An Apologia for Firewalls, arXiv:1304.6483
(Erik Aldape).
Thursday, April 16:
D. Kastor and J. Traschen,
Cosmological Multi-Black Hole Solutions, arXiv:hep-th/9212035 (Mudassir Moosa).
D. Kastor and J. Traschen,
A Positive Energy Theorem for Asymptotically de Sitter Spacetimes,
arXiv:hep-th/0206105.
Friday, April 17:
T. Anous, D.Z. Freedman and A. Maloney, de Sitter Supersymmetry Revisited, arXiv:1403.5038 (Chien-I Chiang).
A. Castro and A. Maloney, The Wave Function of Quantum de Sitter, arXiv:1209.5757 (Heather Lee).
Thursday, April 23:
T. Jacobson, Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State, arXiv:gr-qc/9504004 (Zachary Fisher).
D. Garfinkle and T. Jacobson, A Positive Energy Theorem for Einstein-Aether and Hořava Gravity, arXiv:1108.1835 (Robert McGehee Jr).
Friday, April 24:
Z. Bern, J.J.M. Carrasco and H. Johansson, Perturbative Quantum Gravity as a Double Copy of Gauge Theory, arXiv:1004.0476 (Christopher Mogni).
T. He, V. Lysov, P. Mitra and A. Strominger, BMS Supertranslations and Weinberg's Soft Graviton Theorem, arXiv:1401.7026 (Jason Koeller).
Thursday, April 30:
Y. Sekino, S. Shenker and L. Susskind, On the Topological Phases of Eternal Inflation, arXiv:1003.1347 (Ben Horowitz).
C.P. Herzog and D.T. Son, Schwinger-Keldysh Propagators from AdS/CFT Correspondence, arXiv:hep-th/0212072 (Ziqi Yan).
horava@berkeley.edu
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