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What's the essential role of single-trace operators in AdS/CFT?

I am looking for references on AdS/CFT correspondence where the role of single trace operators is intuitively explained.
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Resources for studying holography for someone with a long gap in physics

for the past 3 years I haven't been reading up on physics and I'd now like to get back into it by learning about holography. I have done courses on QFT and String theory but some concepts I've ...
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Research progress in the symmetries of flat space holography

I was studying the papers [$1$] Arjun Bagchi. The BMS/GCA correspondence [$2$] Duval, C., Gibbons, G. W., & Horvathy, P. A. (2014). Conformal carroll groups. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical ...
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Advanced string theory book recommendations [duplicate]

Let's say I fully understand Polchinski books on string theory Are there any recommended and more advanced book on strings?
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Background for understanding the holographic principle?

I'm really fascinated by the wikipedia page on the Holographic Principle - "the description of a volume of space can be thought of as encoded on a lower-dimensional boundary to the region" seems ...
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QFT background needed for AdS/CFT integrability [closed]

Apologies if this type of question isn't permitted. I'm very interested in integrability in the context of AdS/CFT. I'm starting my Masters soon in a very GATIS-involved institute and would like to ...
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Understanding the AdS/CFT Correspondence [duplicate]

I am beginning to learn about the AdS/CFT correspondence, but I can't find a comprehensive introduction that includes the relevant gravitational/string theory physics. What specific areas of general ...
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What are the AdS/CFT papers which study the stringy effects in the bulk? [closed]

I would like to know of a list of pedagogical/classic/nice papers that study stringy effects in the bulk. May be a sequence which a student follows to understand the stringy nature that is at play.
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What are the good introductory resources for M-theory towards AdS/CFT? [duplicate]

I see a list here with a section titled M-theory - http://www.superstringtheory.com/links/reviews.html In there these two look promising, http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9607201 and http://arxiv.org/abs/...
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Introduction to AdS/CFT

AdS/CFT seems like a really hot topic and I'd like to start reading about. I am looking for the best introduction at my level, i.e. I have a background in QFT, CFT and general relativity at the level ...
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Recommendations for time-line and road map in graduate school towards specializing in Maldacena's conjecture

This question was asked on Theoretical Physics Stackexchange and was grossly misread and closed. I am again posting the question here hoping to get some valuable insights. Also some people were ...