Non-critical, near extremal AdS_6x background as a holographic laboratory of four dimensional YM theory

We study certain properties of the low energy regime of a theory which resembles four dimensional YM theory in the framework of a non-critical holographic gravity dual. We use for the latter the near extremal AdS ₆ non-critical SUGRA. We extract the glueball spectra that associates with the fluctuations of the dilaton, one form and the graviton and compare the results to those of the critical near extremal D4 model and lattice simulations. We show an area law behavior for the Wilson loop and screening for the 't Hooft loop. The Luscher term is found to be -3/24 π/L. We derive the Regge trajectories of glueballs associated with the spinning folded string configurations. copy; SISSA/ISAS 2004.