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2010 Program
Pre-Reading List
& Homework Problems

(as of July 23, 2010)

POSTED 7-23-10 SUGGESTED READING FOR THE FOLLOWING LECTURE:

Igor Klebanov (lecture on 7/26/10)

A. Dymarsky, I.R. Klebanov and R. Roiban, "Perturbative Gauge Theory and Closed String Tachyons." hep-th/0509132

E. Pomoni, L. Rastelli, "Large N Field Theory and AdS Tachyons." 0805.2261

I.R. Klebanov and M.J. Strassler, "Supergravity and a Confining Gauge Theory: Duality Cascades and χSB–Resolution of Naked Singularities." hep-th/0007191

C.P. Herzog, I.R. Klebanov and P. Ouyang, "D-Branes on the Conifold and N=1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities." hep-th/0205100

M.J. Strassler, "The Duality Cascade." hep-th/-0505153


ADDITIONAL READING LIST AND HOMEWORK PROBLEMS :

Katrin and Melanie Becker
Please read chapters 8-10 of String Theory and M-Theory, by Becker, Becker and Schwarz, Cambridge University Press 2007. Please practice as many homework exercises from these chapters as possible before the program.

Davide Gaiotto
Sources for my lectures: Besides the sources listed by Greg Moore below, it will be useful to review basic facts about Riemann surfaces, their moduli spaces and pair of pants decompositions. For example, chapters 9.2, 9.3 of Polchinski vol. 1, and exercise 9.4. Please also follow this link to find some problems related to my lectures that I encourage you to work on before the program.

Daniel Jafferis
Notes on Superconformal Chern-Simons-Matter Theories.
Davide Gaiotto, Xi Yin.

N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals.
Ofer Aharony, Oren Bergman, Daniel Louis Jafferis, Juan Maldacena.

M2-branes and AdS/CFT.
Igor R. Klebanov, Giuseppe Torri.

Juan Maldacena (NOTE: third reading added eff. 6-22-10)
Factorized S-Matrices in Two Dimensions as the Exact Solutions of Certain Relativistic Quantum Field Models. Alexander B. Zamolodchikov, Alexei B. Zamolodchikov. Annals Phys.120:253-291,1979. PDF of article.

The SU (2|2) Dynamic S-Matrix. Niklas Beisert. Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.12:945,2008. hep-th/0511082.

TASI 2003 lectures on AdS/CFT. Juan Maldacena. hep-th/0309246.

Greg Moore (NOTE: problems revised eff. 6-1-10)
Please follow this link to find some problems to think about together with a list of some papers which will serve as background and source for the PiTP lectures of G. Moore. They will also be relevant to the lectures of D. Gaiotto.

Nathan Seiberg
References to the talks:

Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric - magnetic duality.
Kenneth A. Intriligator, N. Seiberg. Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 45BC:1-28, 1996. hep-th/p9509066

Lectures on Supersymmetry Breaking.
Kenneth A. Intriligator, Nathan Seiberg. Class. Quant. Grav. 24:S741-S772, 2007. hep-ph/0702069.

Edward Witten
Reference: Magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. N. Seiberg, (Rutgers University, Piscataway & Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study), Edward Witten, (Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study). RU-94-52, IASSNS-HEP-94-43, Jun 1994. 44 pp. Published in Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994, Erratum-ibid.B430:485-486,1994. e-Print: hep-th/9407087

 

PRELIMINARY PRE-READING LIST FOR "Aspects of Supersymmetry" (posted in February 2010):

1) Supersymmetry and supergravity. By Julius Wess, Jonathan Bagger. 1992. Series: Princeton Series in Physics http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/books/www?key=304549

2) String Theory and M-Theory. By Becker, Becker and Schwarz, Cambridge University Press 2007.