We review recent progress in studying mesons within gauge/gravity duality, in
the context of adding flavour degrees of freedom to generalizations of the
AdS/CFT correspondence. Our main focus is on the `top-down approach' of
considering models constructed within string theory. We explain the
string-theoretical constructions in detail, aiming at non-specialists. These
give rise to a new way of describing strongly coupled confining large N gauge
gauge theories similar to large N QCD. In particular, we consider gravity dual
descriptions of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, and compare with lattice
results. A further topic covered is the behaviour of flavour bound states in
finite temperature field theories dual to a gravity background involving a
black hole. We also describe the `bottom up' phenomenological approach to
mesons within AdS/QCD. -- Some previously unpublished results are also
included.
%0 Journal Article
%1 Erdmenger2007Mesons
%A Erdmenger, Johanna
%A Evans, Nick
%A Kirsch, Ingo
%A Threlfall, Ed
%D 2007
%J The European Physical Journal A
%K adscft, review
%N 1
%P 81--133
%R 10.1140/epja/i2007-10540-1
%T Mesons in Gauge/Gravity Duals - A Review
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2007-10540-1
%V 35
%X We review recent progress in studying mesons within gauge/gravity duality, in
the context of adding flavour degrees of freedom to generalizations of the
AdS/CFT correspondence. Our main focus is on the `top-down approach' of
considering models constructed within string theory. We explain the
string-theoretical constructions in detail, aiming at non-specialists. These
give rise to a new way of describing strongly coupled confining large N gauge
gauge theories similar to large N QCD. In particular, we consider gravity dual
descriptions of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, and compare with lattice
results. A further topic covered is the behaviour of flavour bound states in
finite temperature field theories dual to a gravity background involving a
black hole. We also describe the `bottom up' phenomenological approach to
mesons within AdS/QCD. -- Some previously unpublished results are also
included.
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abstract = {{We review recent progress in studying mesons within gauge/gravity duality, in
the context of adding flavour degrees of freedom to generalizations of the
AdS/CFT correspondence. Our main focus is on the `top-down approach' of
considering models constructed within string theory. We explain the
string-theoretical constructions in detail, aiming at non-specialists. These
give rise to a new way of describing strongly coupled confining large N gauge
gauge theories similar to large N QCD. In particular, we consider gravity dual
descriptions of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking, and compare with lattice
results. A further topic covered is the behaviour of flavour bound states in
finite temperature field theories dual to a gravity background involving a
black hole. We also describe the `bottom up' phenomenological approach to
mesons within AdS/QCD. -- Some previously unpublished results are also
included.}},
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