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Appendix — Bibliography and Paper Map

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Bibliography and Paper Map

The complete active course uses the course reading and source map; the opening map retains the detailed first-block rationale. Its scientific anchors are listed first below. Sections A–M retain the bibliography of the earlier course: week and block labels there are historical, and the old audit note records the state of that catalogue in September 2026. It is not a new verification of every legacy claim.

Opening block and the redesigned route

The complete reading map identifies the sources used across all 32 written lectures. The opening notes supply their finite calculations and distinguish them from imported theorems and gravitational interpretations.

Earlier bibliography and audit history

Status note (2026-09-02). Rebuilt after an audit found the appendix carried 12 entries while the thirty notes cited 43 papers between them — the twenty-one missing ones included the anchors of entire weeks (CHM for Sem II Wk 3, Engelhardt–Wall for Wk 5, AMMZ for Wk 11, BFLW for Wk 13). All are now listed. A second pass on 2026-09-02 caught ten more — every one an old-style hep-th/NNNNNNN identifier, which the first automated check had silently skipped over; those included the anchor papers for Week 9 (Skenderis) and Sem II Wk 12 (Maldacena’s eternal black holes). This matters more than it did in May: with the course moving to a self-contained footing rather than a scaffold over adscft.org, this appendix, and no longer the site’s per-chapter reading lists, is the course’s actual reading spine.

Citation policy. Entries give the arXiv identifier, which is the stable primary reference and the one to verify against. A journal reference is included where one has been checked; its absence means it has not been checked, and never that the paper is unpublished. Cite by arXiv ID in the notes.

A. Foundational AdS/CFT (Sem I Block B background)

  • Maldacena, The large-N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity — Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 (1998) 231, arXiv:hep-th/9711200. The original conjecture.
  • Gubser–Klebanov–Polyakov, Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory — Phys. Lett. B 428 (1998) 105, arXiv:hep-th/9802109. One half of the dictionary.
  • Witten, Anti-de Sitter space and holography — Adv. Theor. Math. Phys. 2 (1998) 253, arXiv:hep-th/9802150. The other half; the generating-functional formulation.

B. Reviews and lecture notes

  • Aharony–Gubser–Maldacena–Ooguri–Oz, Large field theories, string theory and gravity — Phys. Rep. 323 (2000) 183, arXiv:hep-th/9905111. The canonical review of the foundations.
  • McGreevy, Holographic duality with a view toward many-body physics — Adv. High Energy Phys. 2010, 723105, arXiv:0909.0518. The “view from physics” entry point.
  • Harlow, TASI Lectures on the emergence of bulk physics in AdS/CFT — PoS TASI2017 (2018) 002, arXiv:1802.01040. Modern, algebraic-flavoured.
  • Penedones, TASI lectures on AdS/CFT — arXiv:1608.04948. Witten diagrams and Mellin space. Cited in Sem I Wk 10, Sem II Wk 2.
  • Liu, Lectures on entanglement, von Neumann algebras, and emergence of spacetime — arXiv:2510.07017, 2025. The bridge to the algebraic-QFT machinery. Already ingested: 2025-liu-lectures-entanglement-vna.

C. CFT background (Sem I Block A)

  • Rychkov, EPFL Lectures on Conformal Field Theory in Dimensions — arXiv:1601.05000. The conformal algebra, radial quantisation, the full unitarity-bound proof. Cited in Wks 1, 2.
  • Simmons-Duffin, TASI Lectures on the Conformal Bootstrap — arXiv:1602.07982. Radial quantisation in explicit formulas (§2); blocks and crossing (§3). Cited in Wks 2, 3.
  • Pappadopulo–Rychkov–Espin–Rattazzi, OPE convergence in conformal field theory — arXiv:1202.2064. The quantitative convergence statement Week 3 turns on. Cited in Wk 3.
  • Belavin–Polyakov–Zamolodchikov, Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory — Nucl. Phys. B241 (1984) 333. The founding 2d paper; no arXiv entry. Cited in Wk 5.
  • Strominger, Black hole entropy from near-horizon microstates — arXiv:hep-th/9712251. The Cardy count of BTZ entropy that Week 5 §4 reproduces. Cited in Wk 5.

Books used without arXiv entries: di Francesco–Mathieu–Sénéchal, Conformal Field Theory (Wk 5); Polchinski, String Theory Vol. 1 (Wk 1).

D. Correlators, Witten diagrams, Mellin space (Sem I Wk 10, Sem II Wk 2)

  • Freedman–Mathur–Matusis–Rastelli (FMMR), Correlation functions in the CFT(d)/AdS(d+1) correspondence — arXiv:hep-th/9804058. The original two- and three-point Witten-diagram computations. Cited in Sem I Wk 10.
  • D’Hoker–Freedman, Supersymmetric gauge theories and the AdS/CFT correspondence — arXiv:hep-th/0201253. -functions and exchange diagrams. Cited in Sem I Wk 10, Sem II Wk 2.
  • Klebanov–Witten, AdS/CFT correspondence and symmetry breaking — arXiv:hep-th/9905104. Alternative quantisation and the branch. Cited in Sem I Wk 8.
  • Penedones, Writing CFT correlation functions as AdS scattering amplitudes — arXiv:1011.1485. Mellin amplitudes and the flat-space limit. Cited in Sem II Wk 2.

E. Holographic renormalisation (Sem I Wk 9, Sem II Wk 1)

  • de Haro–Skenderis–Solodukhin, Holographic reconstruction of spacetime and renormalization in the AdS/CFT correspondence — arXiv:hep-th/0002230. The systematic Fefferman–Graham and holographic-stress-tensor procedure. Cited in Sem I Wk 9, Sem II Wk 1.
  • Skenderis, Lecture notes on holographic renormalization — arXiv:hep-th/0209067. The canonical review; scheme equivalence. Cited in Sem I Wk 9, Sem II Wk 1.

F. Holographic entanglement entropy (Sem I Block C, Sem II Block 1)

  • Ryu–Takayanagi, Holographic derivation of entanglement entropy from AdS/CFT — PRL 96 (2006) 181602, arXiv:hep-th/0603001.
  • Calabrese–Cardy, Entanglement entropy and quantum field theory — arXiv:hep-th/0405152. The 2d CFT result Week 13 reproduces holographically. Cited in Wk 13.
  • Hubeny–Rangamani–Takayanagi, A covariant holographic entanglement entropy proposal — JHEP 07 (2007) 062, arXiv:0705.0016. Covariant (HRT) version.
  • Lewkowycz–Maldacena, Generalized gravitational entropy — JHEP 08 (2013) 090, arXiv:1304.4926. Derivation via the replica trick.
  • Dong, Holographic entanglement entropy for general higher derivative gravity — arXiv:1310.5713. Cited in Sem II Wk 4.
  • Jafferis–Lewkowycz–Maldacena–Suh (JLMS), Relative entropy equals bulk relative entropy — JHEP 06 (2016) 004, arXiv:1512.06431. Subregion–subalgebra duality at the algebraic level.
  • Faulkner–Lewkowycz–Maldacena (FLM), Quantum corrections to holographic entanglement entropy — arXiv:1307.2892. The correction. Cited in Sem II Wk 5.
  • Engelhardt–Wall (EW), Quantum extremal surfaces: holographic entanglement entropy beyond the classical regime — arXiv:1408.3203. The QES prescription. Cited in Sem II Wk 5.

G. Modular flow and the entanglement first law (Sem II Wk 3)

  • Casini–Huerta–Myers (CHM), Towards a derivation of holographic entanglement entropy — JHEP 05 (2011) 036, arXiv:1102.0440. The ball modular Hamiltonian and the conformal map to the hyperbolic cylinder. The anchor for Sem II Wk 3 §3.
  • Faulkner–Guica–Hartman–Myers–Van Raamsdonk (FGHMV), Gravitation from entanglement in holographic CFTs — arXiv:1312.7856. Bulk Killing flow as the dual of boundary modular flow; the first law giving linearised Einstein equations. Distinct from FLM (§F) despite the overlapping authors.
  • Faulkner–Leigh–Parrikar–Wang (FLPW), Modular Hamiltonians for deformed half-spaces and the averaged null energy condition — arXiv:1605.08072. Cited in Sem II Wk 13.

H. Energy conditions and focusing (Sem II Wk 13)

  • Bousso–Fisher–Leichenauer–Wall (BFLW), A quantum focusing conjecture — arXiv:1506.02669. The QFC and the QNEC. The primary source for Sem II Wk 13, which has no adscft.org counterpart.
  • Harlow–Ooguri, Symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity — arXiv:1810.05338. No global symmetries in quantum gravity. Cited in Sem II Wk 15.

I. Probes: Wilson loops and thermal holography (Sem I Wks 11–12)

  • Maldacena, Wilson loops in large N field theories — arXiv:hep-th/9803002. The original heavy-quark potential. Cited in Sem I Wk 11.
  • Witten, Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories — arXiv:hep-th/9803131. Hawking–Page as deconfinement. Cited in Sem I Wk 12.

J. Black-hole information (Sem II Block 2)

  • Mathur, The information paradox: a pedagogical introduction — arXiv:0909.1038. Cited in Sem II Wk 8.
  • Page, Average entropy of a subsystem — arXiv:gr-qc/9305007, and Information in black hole radiation — arXiv:hep-th/9306083. The two papers behind the Page curve. Cited in Sem II Wk 9.
  • Penington, Entanglement wedge reconstruction and the information paradox — JHEP 09 (2020) 002, arXiv:1905.08255.
  • Almheiri–Engelhardt–Marolf–Maxfield (AEMM), The entropy of bulk quantum fields and the entanglement wedge of an evaporating black hole — JHEP 12 (2019) 063, arXiv:1905.08762.
  • Almheiri–Mahajan–Maldacena–Zhao (AMMZ), The Page curve of Hawking radiation from semiclassical geometry — JHEP 03 (2020) 149, arXiv:1908.10996. The island formula in its current form, with the JT toy model. The anchor paper for Sem II Wk 11.
  • Almheiri–Mahajan–Maldacena, Islands outside the horizon — arXiv:1910.11077. Locates the island boundary just outside the horizon. Cited in Sem II Wk 11.
  • Almheiri–Hartman–Maldacena–Shaghoulian–Tajdini (AHMST), Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation — JHEP 05 (2020) 013, arXiv:1911.12333.
  • Almheiri–Hartman–Maldacena–Shaghoulian–Tajdini, The entropy of Hawking radiation — Rev. Mod. Phys. 93 (2021) 035002, arXiv:2006.06872. The review; §4 is the canonical pedagogical version of the island calculation.
  • Penington–Shenker–Stanford–Yang (PSSY), Replica wormholes and the black hole interior — JHEP 03 (2022) 205, arXiv:1911.11977.

K. ER=EPR and traversable wormholes (Sem II Wks 12, 14)

  • Maldacena, Eternal black holes in anti-de Sitter — JHEP 04 (2003) 021, arXiv:hep-th/0106112. The thermofield double and the eternal AdS black hole. The anchor paper for Sem II Wk 12.

  • Maldacena–Susskind, Cool horizons for entangled black holes — Fortsch. Phys. 61 (2013) 781, arXiv:1306.0533. The ER=EPR conjecture. Cited in Sem II Wk 12.

  • Gao–Jafferis–Wall (GJW), Traversable wormholes via a double trace deformation — JHEP 12 (2017) 151, arXiv:1608.05687.

  • Maldacena–Stanford–Yang, Diving into traversable wormholes — arXiv:1704.05333. The teleportation reading. Cited in Sem II Wk 14.

  • Maldacena–Qi, Eternal traversable wormhole — arXiv:1804.00491.

L. JT gravity and the Schwarzian (Sem I Wk 15, Sem II Wk 6)

  • Almheiri–Polchinski, Models of AdS backreaction and holography — arXiv:1402.6334. Cited in Sem I Wk 15.
  • Maldacena–Stanford–Yang, Conformal symmetry and its breaking in two dimensional Nearly Anti-de-Sitter space — PTEP 2016, 12C104, arXiv:1606.01857.
  • Engelsöy–Mertens–Verlinde, An investigation of AdS₂ backreaction and holography — JHEP 07 (2016) 139, arXiv:1606.03438.
  • Saad–Shenker–Stanford, JT gravity as a matrix integral — arXiv:1903.11115. The genus expansion and wormhole topologies. Cited in Sem I Wk 15.

M. Algebraic / type-III₁ side (cross-reference to AQFT Sem II)

  • Witten, Gravity and the crossed product — JHEP 10 (2022) 008, arXiv:2112.12828.
  • Chandrasekaran–Penington–Witten (CPW), Large algebras and generalized entropy — JHEP 04 (2023) 009, arXiv:2209.10454.
  • “AAJ” — cocycle perturbation of the crossed-product algebra. ⚠️ Entry unresolved; do not cite from this line until fixed. The previous version of this appendix recorded Ahmad–Jefferson, “Crossed product algebras and generalized entropy for subregions”, labelled “AAJ 2024”, against arXiv:2501.01487 — a January-2025 identifier, which contradicts the 2024 label, and a two-author name, which does not fit a three-letter acronym on the pattern of AEMM or AHMST. The acronym is load-bearing: it is used ten times across Sem II Wk 14, the Block 2 skeleton and the syllabus of the earlier course, and Wk 14 §6 calls it “the tightest link between this course and the group’s programme.” Resolve against the AQFT course’s own Sem II Block 4 bibliography, then expand the acronym in the conventions alongside AEMM and GJW.

Status of the historical catalogue

The earlier catalogue is preserved for comparison and possible reuse. Its unresolved AAJ entry remains unresolved and is not cited in the implemented opening block. The old wiki-ingestion workflow and fixed weekly reading order are superseded by the current course plan. Any later lecture that imports a claim from this catalogue must check the actual primary source and its assumptions.

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