Symmetric Product Orbifolds & Holography

This lecture explores the concept of Symmetric Product Orbifolds and their relation to Holography, focusing on AdS/CFT duality. The instructor discusses the challenges in AdS/CFT, the need for more examples, and strategies to manifest quantum gravity in CFTs. The lecture delves into AdS3 Gravity, primary operators, and expectations of the string and EFT spectra. It also covers BPS states in SCFT₂, elliptic genera, and the construction of CFTs using Jacobi forms. The lecture concludes with a discussion on necessary conditions for classical gravitational duals and the exploration of moduli space.