Bertolini, MatteoBigazzi, FrancescoCotrone, Aldo Lorenzo20052011-09-0720052011-09-072005Fortschritte der Physik 54 (2006) 291-299https://openscience.sissa.it/handle/1963/1794We report on some recent results within the string/gauge theory correspondence, both in the conformal and in the non conformal cases, for a recently found class of N=1 dual pairs. These results provide the first cross check of AdS/CFT and field theory techniques like a-maximization. Moreover, they furnish new examples of cascading gauge theories and the first instance of 4d dynamical supersymmetry breaking embedded in the correspondence161770 bytesapplication/pdfen-USPreprint