We review the theoretical developments and conceptual advances that stemmed from the
generalization of QCD to the limit of a large number of color charges, originally proposed by't …

We consider examples of “hidden-valley” models, in which a new confining gauge group is
added to the standard model. Such models often arise in string constructions, and …

We present a broad conceptual introduction to some new ideas in nonperturbative quantum
field theory (QFT) that have led to progress toward an understanding of quark confinement in …

We investigate theories in which the technifermions in higher dimensional representations of
the technicolor gauge group dynamically break the electroweak symmetry of the standard …

We examine a double trace deformation of SU (N) Yang-Mills theory which, for large N and
large volume, is equivalent to unmodified Yang-Mills theory up to O (1/N 2) corrections. In …

Volume independence in large N c gauge theories may be viewed as a generalized orbifold
equivalence. The reduction to zero volume (or Eguchi-Kawai reduction) is a special case of …

A bstract We discuss possible vacuum structures of SU (n)× SU (n) gauge theories with
bifundamental matters at finite θ angles. In order to give a precise constraint, a mixed't Hooft …

A bstract We study quantum chromodynamics including the two-index symmetric or anti-
symmetric quark (QCD (Sym/ASym)) on small ℝ 2× T 2 with a suitable magnetic flux. We first …

We consider QCD-like theories with one massless fermion in various representations of the
gauge group SU (N). The theories are formulated on R 3× S 1. In the decompactification limit …

A bstract We construct the type-IIB AdS4⋉ K supergravity solutions which are dual to the
three-dimensional\(\mathcal {N}= 4\) superconformal field theories that arise as infrared fixed …