QCD and String Theory

dc.creatorKlebanov, Igor R.
dc.date2005-09-09
dc.date2005-10-19
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dc.descriptionThis talk begins with some history and basic facts about string theory and its connections with strong interactions. Comparisons of stacks of Dirichlet branes with curved backgrounds produced by them are used to motivate the AdS/CFT correspondence between superconformal gauge theory and string theory on a product of Anti-de Sitter space and a compact manifold. The ensuing duality between semi-classical spinning strings and long gauge theory operators is briefly reviewed. Strongly coupled thermal SYM theory is explored via a black hole in 5-dimensional AdS space, which leads to explicit results for its entropy and shear viscosity. A conjectured universal lower bound on the viscosity to entropy density ratio, and its possible relation to recent results from RHIC, are discussed. Finally, some available results on string duals of confining gauge theories are briefly reviewed.
dc.description12 pages, prepared for the Proceedings of the 2005 Lepton-Photon Symposium; v2: minor revisions, references added, the version to appear in the proceedings
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509087
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0509087
dc.identifierInt.J.Mod.Phys.A21:1831-1843,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1142/S0217751X06032794
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/229066
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleQCD and String Theory
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