Unquenched Flavor in the Gauge/Gravity Correspondence

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we review the studies of field theories with a large number of adjoint and fundamental fields, in the Veneziano limit. We concentrate in set-ups where the fundamentals are introduced by a smeared set of D-branes. We make emphasis on the general ideas and then in su...

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Main Authors: Carlos Núñez, Ángel Paredes, Alfonso V. Ramallo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/196714