The AdS/CFT correspondence

Books

• D-Branes by Clifford Johnson (CUP, 2003)

Reviews

• Supersymmetric Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence by Eric D'Hoker, Daniel Z. Freedman (hep-th/0201253, abs, ps, pdf, 145 pages, 14 figures)
• Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity by O. Aharony, S.S. Gubser, J. Maldacena, H. Ooguri, Y. Oz (hep-th/9905111, abs, ps, pdf, 261 pages, 42 figures)
• Gauge/gravity duality by Gary Horowitz and Joseph Polchinski (gr-qc/0602037, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages)
• The Gauge/String Correspondence Towards Realistic Gauge Theories by Emiliano Imeroni (hep-th/0312070, abs, ps, pdf, 144 pages, 26 figure)
• Supergravity duals of supersymmetric four dimensional gauge theories by F. Bigazzi, A. L. Cotrone, M. Petrini, A. Zaffaroni (hep-th/0303191, abs, ps, pdf, 85 pages, 1 figure)
• Four Lectures On The Gauge/Gravity Correspondence by M. Bertolini (hep-th/0303160, abs, ps, pdf, 84 pages, 7 figures)
• Holographic Renormalization Group by Masafumi Fukuma, So Matsuura, Tadakatsu Sakai (hep-th/0212314, abs, ps, pdf, 90 pages, 6 figures)
• The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD by Ofer Aharony (hep-th/0212193, abs, ps, pdf, 27 pages)
• Enumerative geometry and knot invariants by Marcos Marino (hep-th/0210145, abs, ps, pdf, 69 pages, 13 figures)
• Lecture Notes on Holographic Renormalization by Kostas Skenderis (hep-th/0209067, abs, ps, pdf, 42 pages)
• D-Branes on the Conifold and N=1 Gauge/Gravity Dualities by Christopher P. Herzog, Igor R. Klebanov, Peter Ouyang (hep-th/0205100, abs, ps, pdf, 40 pages)
• Rudiments of Holography by Enrique Alvarez, Jorge Conde, Lorenzo Hernandez (hep-th/0205075, abs, ps, pdf, 60 pages)
• Wilson loops in SYM theory: from weak to strong coupling by Gordon W. Semenoff, K. Zarembo (hep-th/0202156, abs, ps, pdf, 32 pages, 5 figures)
• TASI Lectures: Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence by Igor R. Klebanov (hep-th/0009139, abs, ps, pdf, 36 pages)
• Aspects of the Gauge Theory -- Gravity Correspondence by Seif Randjbar-Daemi (hep-th/0004204, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages, 5 figures)
• Yang-Mills- and D-instantons by A.V. Belitsky, S. Vandoren, P. van Nieuwenhuizen (hep-th/0004186, abs, ps, pdf, 62 pages)
• Lattice Gauge Theories and the AdS/CFT Correspondence by M. Caselle (hep-th/0003119, abs, ps, pdf, 80 pages, 6 figure)
• What does the string/gauge correspondence teach us about Wilson loops? by Jacob Sonnenschein (hep-th/0003032, abs, ps, pdf, 47 pages, 13 figures)
• TASI Lectures on Branes, Black Holes and Anti-de Sitter Space by M. J. Duff (hep-th/9912164, abs, ps, pdf, 122 pages)
• N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and the AdS/SCFT correspondence by Stefano Kovacs (hep-th/9908171, abs, ps, pdf, 228 pages)
• Large N gauge theories and AdS/CFT correspondence by Paolo Di Vecchia (hep-th/9908148, abs, ps, pdf, 64 pages)
• Anti-de Sitter Supersymmetry by Bernard de Wit, Ivan Herger (hep-th/9908005, abs, ps, pdf, 23 pages)
• Dynamics of D-brane Black Holes by Steven S. Gubser (hep-th/9908004, abs, ps, pdf, 117 pages)
• An introduction to AdS/CFT correspondence by Paolo Di Vecchia (hep-th/9903007, abs, ps, pdf, 7 pages)
• Introduction to the Maldacena Conjecture on AdS/CFT by Jens L. Petersen (hep-th/9902131, abs, ps, pdf, 71 pages)
• Two Lectures on the AdS/CFT Correspondence by Michael R. Douglas, S. Randjbar-Daemi (hep-th/9902022, abs, ps, pdf)
• From Threebranes to Large N Gauge Theories by Igor R. Klebanov (hep-th/9901018, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages)

Papers

• The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity by Juan M. Maldacena (hep-th/9711200, abs, ps, pdf, 20 pages): the original AdS/CFT paper