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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 S 2 (the Maldacena-Nuñez 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.
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Aharony, O. (2003). The Non-Ads/Non-CFT Correspondence, Or Three Different Paths To Qcd. In: Baulieu, L., Rabinovici, E., Harvey, J., Pioline, B., Windey, P. (eds) Progress in String, Field and Particle Theory. NATO Science Series, vol 104. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0211-0_1
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