Holographic like models as a five-dimensional rewriting of large-Nc QCD

TL;DR

This paper explores how bottom-up holographic models, especially the soft wall model with positive-sign dilaton, can be viewed as a five-dimensional reformulation of large-Nc QCD sum rules, offering an alternative to traditional AdS/CFT methods.

Contribution

It demonstrates that many features of AdS/QCD models can be derived without AdS/CFT prescriptions and classifies models leading to Regge trajectories, favoring the soft wall model with positive-sign dilaton.

Findings

Many AdS/QCD features are obtainable without AdS/CFT prescriptions.

Classified models that produce simple Regge trajectories.

Identified the soft wall model with positive-sign dilaton as most phenomenologically consistent.

Abstract

The AdS/QCD models are known to be tightly related with the QCD sum rules in the large-Nc (called also planar) limit. Rewriting the theory of infinite tower of free stable mesons expected in the large-Nc QCD as a five-dimensional theory we scrutinize to what extend the bottom-up holographic models may be viewed as an alternative language expressing the phenomenology of planar QCD sum rules. It is found that many features of AdS/QCD models can be thereby obtained without invoking prescriptions from the original AdS/CFT correspondence. Under some assumptions, all possibilities leading to simple Regge trajectories are classified and it is argued that the most phenomenologically consistent model is the one called "soft wall model" in the holographic approach, with a preference to the positive-sign dilaton background.