Adding D7‐branes to the Polchinski‐Strassler gravity background

We motivate and summarize our analysis of hep‐th/0610276 in which we consider D7‐brane probe embeddings in the Polchinski‐Strassler background with 𝒩 = 2 supersymmetry. The corresponding dual gauge theory is given by the 𝒩 = 2* theory with fundamental matter. Based on a talk given by C. Sieg at the RTN Workshop 2006, Napoli.