AdS/CFT, Black Holes, And Fuzzballs

In this thesis we investigate two different aspects of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We first investigate the holographic AdS/CMT correspondence. Gravitational backgrounds in d+2 dimensions have been proposed as holographic duals to Lifshitz-like theories describing critical phenomena in d+1 dimension...

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Main Author: Zadeh, Aida
Other Authors: Peet, Amanda
Language:en_ca
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/43574