Siegel's lectures, PHY 622, F'18

AdS/CFT, etc.

Sometimes the journey is more important than the destination:
There won't be much AdS/CFT correspondence in these lectures, but mostly background on AdS & on CFT.

Subsection numbers are from Fields v4.
- When I lecture from the book in class, the equation/paragraph I'm discussing is scrolled to the top of the screen.
- Warning: This book and web page are being revised during the course.
Assigned reading: @ least 2 subsections ahead of lecture.
- Check the background material to see if you need it.
- Also note the summaries given in the Outline @ the beginning of the book, & for equations the AfterMath @ the end.
- If you are late to class, you are responsible for any material you missed.
Homework is due 1 week after reached in lecture, @ beginning of class.
- You can submit it on paper in class, or electronically; if on paper, don't turn in different assignments on the same sheet or you won't get it back till the latest is returned.
- Late homework is usually a rush job & mostly wrong.

conformal	covered in	homework	background material
conformal group	IA[3^†,]6	IA6.4-7 (due 10/29)
classical groups	IB1,4-5	IB4.1 (due 10/29)
covering groups	IC5[,IIA5^†]		IIA7 (chirality/duality)
coordinate cosets	IC6	IC6.1,3* (due 11/2)
break for rest of Roček's lectures
superconformal
superspace	IIC[1^†,]2	IIC2.2 (due 11/16)	IA2 (super indices, classical fermions)
superconformal groups	[IB3^†,]IIC3-4	IIC4.2 (due 11/26)
interacting Yang-Mills
covariant derivative	IIIC1		IIIA4 (actions & couplings)
lightcone gauge	IIIC2	IIIC2.3 (due 11/28)	IIB1-3 (arbitrary spin & lightcone gauge)
N=4 super Yang-Mills	XC6 (YM)		IVC7 (extended susy), XC1-2 (spinors in all dimensions)
more gravity
covariant derivative	IXA1,2	IXA2.7 (due 11/30)	IC2 (coordinate transformations), IIB1 (weight, spin)
Thanksgiving break
Weyl scale (D>2)	IXA7	IXA7.7 (due 12/3)	IVA7 (dilaton), IXC5 (Weyl scale → Schwarzschild)
lightcone gauge (D>2)	IXB3 (LC)
Anti-de Sitter
de Sitter & Anti-de Sitter spaces	IXC2		IVA2 (σ models)
10D IIB supergravity on AdS₅×S⁵	XC7		XIA4 (massless superstring spectra), IC3 (Young tableaux)
correspondence
1/N expansion	VIIC4		VC2 (diagram topology), VC9 (group theory in diagrams)
definition, spectrum	XIA8

^†Should have been covered: maybe next time?
*Has since been renumbered to IC6.4.