Using the D1D5 CFT to Understand Black Holes

Understand

In this dissertation, we review work presented in arXiv:0906.2015, arXiv:0907.1663, arXiv:1002.3132, arXiv:1003.2746, and arXiv:1007.2202 on the D1D5 system.

• We begin with some motivational material for black holes in string theory.
• In Chapter 2, we review the D1D5 system, including the gravity and CFT descriptions.
• In Chapter 3, we show how to perturbatively relax the decoupling limit in a general AdS-CFT setting.