Lecture notes: Complete File

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

References:

Some original articles :

AdS/CFT

J. M. Maldacena: The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200

E. Witten: Anti De Sitter Space And Holography

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9802150

E. Witten: Anti-de Sitter Space, Thermal Phase Transition, And Confinement In Gauge Theories

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9803131

I. Klebanov & E. Witten: AdS/CFT Correspondence and Symmetry Breaking

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9905104

Symmetries of AdS3

J. D. Brown & M. Henneaux : Central Charges in the Canonical Realization of Asymptotic Symmetries: An Example from Three-Dimensional Gravity

Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 104 (1986) 207-226

J. M. Maldacena & A. Strominger : AdS(3) black holes and a stringy exclusion principle

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9804085

CFT2

A.A. Belavin, A. M. Polyakov & A.B. Zamolodchikov : Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory

Published in Nucl.Phys. B241 (1984) 333-380

J. L. Cardy : Operator Content of Two-Dimensional Conformally Invariant Theories

Published in Nucl. Phys. B270 (1986) 186–204.

Some useful books/reviews/lecture notes :

* A broad overview of dualities in field and string theories can be found in

J. Polchinski: Dualities of Fields and Strings

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.5704

* For gauge/gravity duality and related topics see

J. Kaplan : Lectures on AdS/CFT from the Bottom Up

Notes available at : http://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/jared-kaplan/files/2016/05/AdSCFTCourseNotesCurrentPublic.pdf

E. D'Hoker & D. Z. Freedman : Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS / CFT correspondence

e-Print available at https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0201253

J. McGreevy: Holographic Duality With A View Toward Many-Body Physics

Preprint available at https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.0518

J. Zaanen et al.: The AdS/CMT Manual for Plumbers and Electricians

Article available here.

J. Maldacena: The Gauge/Gravity Duality

Book chapter available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1106.6073

M. Natsuume: AdS/CFT Duality User Guide

Book available at https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3575

A. Zaffaroni: Introduction to the AdS/CFT correspondence

Article published at Class.Quant.Grav. 17 (2000) 3571-3597

* For CFT2 basics see (particularly chapter 4-6 and section 10.1 of)

P. Francesco, P. Mathieu & D. Sénéchal : Conformal Field Theory

This book is also known as the Yellow Book, the CFT Bible, the telephone directory etc.