1/N 2 corrections to deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of charged leptons from glueballs at strong coupling are investigated in the framework of the gauge/gravity duality. The structure functions F 1 and F 2 (and also F L ) are studied at subleading order in the 1/N 2 expansion, in terms of q 2 and the Bjorken parameter x. The relevant type IIB supergravity one-loop diagrams (which correspond to DIS with two-hadron final states) are studied in detail, while n-loop diagrams (corresponding to DIS with (n + 1)-hadron final states) are briefly discussed. The 1/N 2n and Λ 2 /q 2 dependence of the structure functions is analyzed. Within this context two very different limits are considered: one is the large N limit and the other one is when the virtual photon momentum transfer q is much larger than the infrared confining scale Λ. These limits do not commute.

Deep inelastic scattering (DIS) of charged leptons off scalar mesons in the 1/N expansion is studied by using the gauge/gravity duality. We focus on the D3D7-brane system and investigate the corresponding structure functions by considering both the high energy limit and the 1/N expansion. These limits do not commute. From the D7-brane DBI action we derive a Lagrangian at sub-leading order in the D7-brane fluctuations and obtain a number of interactions some of which become relevant for two-hadron finalstate DIS. By considering first the high energy limit followed by the large N one, our results fit lattice QCD data within 1.27% for the first three moments of F 2 for the lightest pseudoscalar meson.