We present a holographic dual of four-dimensional, large Nc QCD with massless flavors. This model is constructed by placing Nf probe D8-branes into a D4 background, where supersymmetry is completely broken. The chiral symmetry breaking in QCD is manifested as a smooth interpolation of D8-D8 pairs in the supergravity background. The meson spectrum is examined by analyzing a five-dimensional Yang...

The immobilized, low-spinal turtle produces 3 forms of the fictive scratch reflex in response to tactile stimulation of specific sites on its body surface (Robertson et al., 1985). We used complete transections of the spinal cord at different rostrocaudal levels to reveal the minimum length of spinal cord sufficient to produce each scratch form. Additional transections revealed the progressive ...

Figure 2. H NMR spectra of (a) [R4N ]2[IrX6 2−] in toluene-d8 obtained after mixing the organic (toluene-d8) layer of TOAB (2.0 mmol) and the aqueous (D2O) layer of K2IrCl6 (0.4 mmol), (b) 1-dodecanthiol (0.8 mmol) added to a, (c) 1-dodecanthiol (1.6 mmol) added to a, (d) NaBH4 (4.0 mmol) added to c, (e) S-dodecylthiosulfate (0.8 mmol) added to a, and (f) Ir nanoparticle in CDCl3 after purifica...

We consider a D4 − D8 − D8 brane construction which gives rise to a large N QCD at sufficiently small energies. Using the gravity dual of this system, we study chiral phase transition at finite chemical potential and temperature and find a line of first order phase transitions in the phase plane. We compute the spectral function and the photon emission rate. The trace of the spectral function i...

Pattern-avoiding involutions, which have received much enumerative attention, are patternavoiding permutations which are invariant under the natural action of a certain subgroup of D8, the symmetry group of a square. Three other nontrivial subgroups of D8 also have invariant permutations under this action. For each of these subgroups, we enumerate the set of permutations which are invariant und...

Article history: Received 11 November 2009 Available online 16 July 2010 JEL classification: C9 D02 D7 D8