We review recent progress in studying mesons within gauge/gravity duality, in the context of
adding flavour degrees of freedom to generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our …

In this review article, we describe the role of holography in deciphering the physics of dense
QCD matter, relevant for the description of compact stars and their binary mergers. We …

I review holographic models for (dense and cold) nuclear matter, neutron stars, and their
mergers. I start by a brief general discussion on current knowledge of cold QCD matter and …

Ab initio methods using weakly interacting nucleons give a good description of condensed
nuclear matter up to densities comparable to the nuclear saturation density. At higher …

Some time ago, Atiyah and Manton observed that computing the holonomy of Yang-Mills
instantons yields good approximations to static Skyrmion solutions of the Skyrme model …

The transport properties of dense QCD matter play a crucial role in the physics of neutron
stars and their mergers but are notoriously difficult to study with traditional quantum field …

Recently, holographic techniques have been used to study the thermal properties of Script
N= 2 super-Yang-Mills theory, with gauge group SU (N c) and coupled to N f<< N c flavours …

At the dawn of a new theoretical tool based on the AdS/CFT correspondence for non-
perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics, we give an interim review on the new …

We study cold and dense nuclear matter by using the gauge/gravity duality. To this end, we
use the Witten–Sakai–Sugimoto model and the V-QCD models with an approach where the …

A bstract We initiate the study of Regge theory in a bottom-up holographic model for QCD in
the Veneziano limit, where the backreaction of the quarks to the gluon dynamics is included …