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Twentyfourth School: Heigenbrücken, 10. – 21.09.2018
funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Lecture Program:
G. Dvali (München) |
p-form gauge theories in physics |
M. Hindmarsh (Sussex) |
Phase transitions in the early universe |
A. Karch (Seattle) |
Dualities in 2+1 dimensions and beyond |
S. Theisen (Potsdam) |
Anomalies in quantum field theory |
K. Zarembo (Stockholm) |
Localization and holography |
The instruction language is English.
Some lecture notes may appear later and will be made available here
Recommended Literature:
Dvali:
http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0507215
http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1705.06317
https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0402046.pdf
Polchinski, String Theory
(especially Appendix B.4 on Differential Forms in Vol. II)
Hindmarsh:
Phase transitions in the Universe, M. Gleiser
http://inspirehep.net/record/467957
Basics of Thermal Field Theory, M. Laine and A. Vuorinen
http://inspirehep.net/record/1468954
[Sections 1, 2, 4]
Energy Budget of Cosmological First-order Phase Transitions, J.R.
Espinosa, T. Konstantin, J.M. No, G. Servant
http://inspirehep.net/record/852891
[Sections 1, 2]
Lecture Notes on General Relativity, S. Carroll
http://inspirehep.net/record/451850
[Chapter 6, gravitational waves]
Lectures on cosmic topological defects, T. Vachaspati
https://inspirehep.net/record/540007
Mark Hindmash’s slides
slides_1
slides_2a
slides_2b
slides_3
G-Waves
Karch:
Lectures 15 and 16 of
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-334-statistical-mechanics-ii-statistical-physics-of-fields-spring-2014/index.htm
To cover T-duality and Bosonization in 2d I will mostly follow the book by Di Francesco, Mathieu and Senechal: Conformal Field Theory.Next we will cover dualitues in SUSY field theories in 3+1 and 2+1 dimensions, with N=4,2,1 as well as mirror symmetry in d=3 with N=4
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9509066
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607207
Last but not least we’ll get into non-SUSY dualities in 2+1. No good review exists but useful references are
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04472
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01893
https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04012
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01893
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01989
Theisen:
https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.0634
https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0509097
Bertlmann: Anomalies in Quantum field Theory, Oxford University Press 1996
Any modern book on QFT such as Srednicki’s