Holographic effective theories for strongly coupled physics
In this thesis we summarize three of our work using the gauge/gravity dualities to build effective theories for strongly coupled phenomena. First, we study the thermodynamics of large N pure 2+1 dimensional Yang-Mills theory on a small spatial S². By studying the effective action for the Polyakov...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/12621 |