Excited baryons and heavy pentaquarks in large Nc QCD

Abstract

We briefly discuss the large Nc picture for excited baryons, present a new method for the calculation of matrix elements and illustrate it by computing the strong decays of heavy exotic states.

Comments: 3 pages, talk given at the 4th International Conference on Quarks and Nuclear Physics (QNP06), Madrid, Spain, June 5-10, 2006