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Finite size corrections and integrability of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM and DLCQ strings on a pp-wave

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We compute the planar finite size corrections to the spectrum of the dilatation operator acting on two-impurity states of a certain limit of conformal N=2\mathcal{N}=2 quiver gauge field theory which is a ZMZ_M-orbifold of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We match the result to the string dual, IIB superstrings propagating on a pp-wave background with a periodically identified null coordinate. Up to two loops, we show that the computation of operator dimensions, using an effective Hamiltonian technique derived from renormalized perturbation theory and a twisted Bethe ansatz which is a simple generalization of the Beisert-Dippel-Staudacher~\cite{Beisert:2004hm} long range spin chain, agree with each other and also agree with a computation of the analogous quantity in the string theory. We compute the spectrum at three loop order using the twisted Bethe ansatz and find a disagreement with the string spectrum very similar to the known one in the near BMN limit of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. We show that, like in N=4\mathcal{N}=4, this disagreement can be resolved by adding a conjectured ``dressing factor'' to the twisted Bethe ansatz. Our results are consistent with integrability of the N=2\mathcal{N}=2 theory within the same framework as that of N=4\mathcal{N}=4.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0606193,
  title  = {Finite size corrections and integrability of $\mathcal{N}=2$ SYM and DLCQ strings on a pp-wave},
  author = {Davide Astolfi and Valentina Forini and Gianluca Grignani and Gordon W. Semenoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0606193},
  year   = {2009}
}

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