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String theory and quantum chromodynamics*

David Mateos

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I review recent progress on the connection between string theory and quantum chromodynamics in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. Emphasis is placed on conciseness and conceptual aspects rather than on technical details. Topics covered include the large-\nc limit of gauge theories, the gravitational description of gauge theory thermodynamics and hydrodynamics, and confinement/deconfinement thermal phase transitions.


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*  Lectures given at the RTN Winter School on 'Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories' at CERN on January 15–19, 2007.
PACS

12.38.-t Quantum chromodynamics

11.25.Uv D branes

11.25.Tq Gauge/string duality

04.60.-m Quantum gravity

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

MSC

81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories (See also 53C07, 58E15)

81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) (See also 83E30)

81V05 Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics

83E30 String and superstring theories (See also 81T30)

Subjects

Gravitation and cosmology

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 21 (7 November 2007)

Received 30 June 2007

Published 15 October 2007



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