From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories: The Ads/CFT Correspondence (Paperback)

Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence.- Perturbations of anti-de Sitter Black Holes.- Introduction to the AdS/CFT Correspondence.- Improved Holographic QCD.- The Dynamics of Quark Gluon Plasma and AdS/CFT.- Fluid Dynamics from Gravity.- The Gauge-gravity Duality and Heavy Ion-Collisions.- AdS/CFT on the Brane.- Condensed Matter and AdS/CFT.- Introduction to Holographic Superconductors.- Flavor Superconductivity and Superfluidity.- Holographic Torsion and the Prelude to Kalb-Ramond Superconductivity.- Index.