The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD
| dc.creator | Aharony, Ofer | |
| dc.date | 2002-12-17 | |
| dc.date | 2003-03-25 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:14:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:14:40Z | |
| dc.description | In these lecture notes from the 2002 Cargese summer school we review the progress that has been made towards finding a string theory for QCD (or for pure (super)Yang-Mills theory) following the discovery of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We start with a brief review of the AdS/CFT correspondence and a general discussion of its application to the construction of a string theory for QCD. We then discuss in detail two possible paths towards a QCD string theory, one which uses a mass deformation of the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory (the Polchinski-Strassler background) and the other using a compactification of "little string theory" on a 2-sphere (the Maldacena-Nunez solution). A third approach (the Klebanov-Strassler solution) is described in other lectures of this school. We briefly assess the advantages and disadvantages of all three approaches. | |
| dc.description | 27 pages, lecture notes from the Cargese 2002 summer school. v2 : references added. v3 : references and clarifications added | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212193 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212193 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/51706 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | The non-AdS/non-CFT correspondence, or three different paths to QCD | |
| dc.type | text |