Unquenched flavor in the gauge/gravity correspondence

Understand

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 subsequent chapters that can be read independently, describe particular considerations in various different models.
• Some new material is presented along the various sections.