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Title Slide 00:00:00 Introduction 00:00:24 Outline 00:02:36 Outline II 00:04:10 Confinement from Supergravity 00:04:32 The additional Fields of the Background 00:06:05 Wilson Loops, Flux Tubes and 't Hooft Loops 00:06:57 Glueballs 00:09:32 Baryons 00:10:21 Instantons and U_r(1) Shiral Symmetry Breaking 00:11:37 Close to the boundary 00:13:36 Domain Walls of the KS and MN Models 00:14:10 Do we need to go beyond the Gauge Gravity 00:15:50 A warmup exercise D(P+4) probes in DP brane background 00:17:21 The DP-brane background in the decoupling limit 00:19:24 S_dbi 00:20:53 Reminder: The deformed conifold and the KS model 00:21:37 It is useful to rewrite the metric as follows 00:22:39 Where F_5 is the self-dual 00:23:55 Fundamental quarks from D7 probe brane 00:24:39 The deformed conifold is defined by 00:25:57 Figure 1 00:27:21 DP-brane probes in the RS background classical solution 00:29:18 Are these brane configurations solutions of the equations of motion? 00:30:39 Equations S_dbi and S_wz 00:32:41 The solutions satisfies the consistency condition of the RR-flux cancellation 00:33:45 Quadratic fluctuations around the probe configuration 00:37:05 u_ab is defined by 3rd party 00:39:20 Vector Fluctions 00:41:00 Substitute the mode expansion 00:42:14 The differential equation allows two independent solutions 00:43:16 By imposing a regulatory condition 00:44:06 Now let us discuss what is the regulatory condition to be imposed 00:44:42 Figure 2 00:45:51 Now let us discuss what is the regulatory condition to be imposed 00:46:07 Pseudo scalar fluctuations 00:48:56 Figures 3 and 4 overlaid 00:49:43 We obtain from this the following eigenvalues 00:50:52 Summary of the vector and pseudo scalar mesons 00:54:01 The non-vector modes are in fact pseudo scalars rather than scalars 00:54:52 Summary and Open Questions 00:56:07