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PHYS-739: Conformal Field theory and Gravity

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This course is an introduction to holography, the modern approach to quantum gravity.

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Summary

This course is an introduction to holography, the modern approach to quantum gravity.

Lectures

Instructors

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/conformal-field-theory-and-gravity-PHYS-739

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/PHYS-739

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Lectures in this course (47)

Expectation Value and Convex Functions

Explores expectation value, convex functions, weights, and inequalities in mathematical analysis.

Conformal Field Theories: Review and Scaling

Covers statistical mechanics, conformal field theories, and critical exponents, emphasizing the importance of universality and renormalization group flows.

Conformal Transformations: Power Counting

Covers conformal transformations and power counting in diagrams with edges, vertices, and faces.

Conformal Symmetries in Euclidean and AdS Spaces

Explores conformal symmetries in Euclidean and AdS spaces, isometries, induced metric, Poincaré coordinates, and boundary structure.

Conformal Field Theories in AdS: Energy Spectra and Unitarity

Explores energy spectra in AdS, unitarity constraints, and the AdS-CFT correspondence.

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