Dressing the Giant Gluon
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-04-03 v1
Abstract
We demonstrate the applicability of the dressing method to the problem of constructing new classical solutions for Euclidean worldsheets in anti-de Sitter space. The motivation stems from recent work of Alday and Maldacena, who studied gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling using a generalization of a particular worldsheet found by Kruczenski whose edge traces a path composed of light-light segments on the boundary of AdS. We dress this `giant gluon' to find new solutions in AdS_3 and AdS_5 whose edges trace out more complicated, timelike curves on the boundary. These solutions may be used to calculate certain Wilson loops via AdS/CFT.
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@article{arxiv.0708.0818,
title = {Dressing the Giant Gluon},
author = {Antal Jevicki and Chrysostomos Kalousios and Marcus Spradlin and Anastasia Volovich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0708.0818},
year = {2009}
}
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19 pages, 3 figures, harvmac