String propagation on curved backgrounds has received much attention: own ... in various directions, several quite elementary questions remain unanswered AdS3 ...
Anti de Sitter Black Holes Harvey Reall University of Nottingham Motivation Black hole entropy calculations all rely on 2d CFT Can we use AdS/CFT to calculate entropy ...
A New Endpoint for Hawking Evaporation Gary Horowitz UCSB hep-th/0506166 String theory starts with: Old endpoints of Hawking evaporation: Review of Kaluza-Klein ...
Open (Gluons) Close (Graviton) duality in near D brane Horizon ... Gauge Duality without confinement! ... IS ALMOST CERTAINLY AN EXACT STRING/GAUGE DUALITY. ...
Extremal N=2 2D CFT's and Constraints of Modularity. Work done with ... EFT. J 1: No contradiction. But large. degeneracy might possibly invalidate EFT ...
There is a static bubble: 4D euclidean ... Not all black strings can decay to a static bubble: ... You end up at a static bubble only if Q/L2 is small enough. ...
Cosmology: still in its infancy, no breakthrough yet. expect drastic departure from old views. ... IV: 'A Heretic View on Cosmology' I: A Model for de Sitter ...
... SL(2,Z) family of BHs can't account for Poincar recurrence ... BHs are coarse-grained effective description. Cf. gas of molecules dissipative continuum ...
Gravity. and. strongly coupled field theories. J. Maldacena. Quantum Gravity in ... Use the field theory to ... Duality: g2 N is small perturbation theory is ...