Gauge-string duality
a.k.a. Anti-de Sitter / Conformal Field Theory duality (AdS/CFT)
Topics:
- D3-branes and the AdS/CFT correspondence [Maldacena 1998a; Gubser, Klebanov, Polyakov 1998; Witten 1998]; Pedestrian review [Gubser and Karch 2009].
- Equation of state of strongly coupled SYM [Gubser, Klebanov, Peet 1996; Gubser, Klebanov, Tseytlin 1998; Blaizot, Iancu, Kraemmer, Rebhan 2006].
- External quarks and their gravity duals [Maldacena 1998b; Rey and Yee 2001].