Introductory lectures to large-N QCD phenomenology and lattice results

Abstract

An elementary, pedagogical introduction to the large-N limit of QCD and to its phenomenological implications is presented, and a survey of lattice results in the 't Hooft limit is briefly discussed.

Comments: 60 pages, 25 eps figures, prepared for submission to Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics; v2: minor text revision, added references: version published in the journal