We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory,
focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter …

The discovery in the early 1970s that black holes radiate as black bodies has radically
affected our understanding of general relativity, and offered us some early hints about the …

A bstract Quantum error correction has given us a natural language for the emergence of
spacetime, but the black hole interior poses a challenge for this framework: at late times the …

In this paper we use the AdS/CFT correspondence to refine and then establish a set of old
conjectures about symmetries in quantum gravity. We first show that any global symmetry …

A bstract Equilibrium finite temperature observables of a CFT can be described by a local
effective action for background fields—a “thermal effective action”. This effective action …

A bstract We study the torus partition functions of free bosonic CFTs in two dimensions.
Integrating over Narain moduli defines an ensemble-averaged free CFT. We calculate the …

These lecture notes are intended for starting PhD students in theoretical physics who have a
working knowledge of General Relativity. The four topics covered are: Surface charges as …

The correspondence between supergravity (and string theory) on $ AdS $ space and
boundary conformal field theory relates the thermodynamics of ${\cal N}= 4$ super Yang …

A bstract A set of infinitesimal Virasoro L⊗ Virasoro R diffeomorphisms are presented which
act non-trivially on the horizon of a generic Kerr black hole with spin J. The covariant phase …

A bstract We consider the problem of defining localized subsystems in gauge theory and
gravity. Such systems are associated to spacelike hypersurfaces with boundaries and …