Quark Counting Rules: Old and New Approaches

Abstract

I discuss the subject of powerlike asymptotic behavior of hadronic form factors in pre-QCD analyses of soft (Feynman/Drell-Yan) and hard (West) mechanisms, and also recent derivation of $1/Q^2$ asymptotics of meson form factors in AdS/QCD. At the end, I briefly comment on "light-front holography" ansatz.

Comments: Talk at "Shifmania", May 14-17,2009, Minneapolis, MN