We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

This paper is mainly a review of the dualities between Vasiliev's higher spin gauge theories
in AdS 4 and three dimensional large N vector models, with focus on the holographic …

A bstract Motivated by the prospect of constraining microscopic models, we calculate the
exact one-loop corrected de Sitter entropy (the logarithm of the sphere partition function) for …

A bstract We introduce a class of Vertex Operator Algebras which arise at junctions of
supersymmetric interfaces in\(\mathcal {N}\)= 4 Super Yang Mills gauge theory. These vertex …

A bstract We present a class of dS/CFT correspondence between two-dimensional CFTs
and three-dimensional de Sitter spaces. We argue that such a CFT includes an SU (2) WZW …

We revisit the problem of interactions of higher-spin fields in flat space. We argue that all no-
go theorems can be avoided by the light-cone approach, which results in more interaction …

This is a collection of my lecture notes on the higher-spin theory course given for students at
the Institute for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University …

A bstract It is natural to believe that the free symmetric product orbifold CFT is dual to the
tensionless limit of string theory on AdS 3× S 3×\({\mathbb {T}}^ 4\). At this point in moduli …

We introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence as a natural extension of QFT in a fixed AdS
background. We start by reviewing some general concepts of CFT, including the embedding …

A bstract Conformal Carrollian groups are known to be isomorphic to Bondi-Metzner-Sachs
(BMS) groups that arise as the asymptotic symmetries at the null boundary of Minkowski …