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Giant Magnons and Spiky Strings on S^3 with B-field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-07-03 v2

Abstract

We study solutions for a rotating string on S^3 with a background NS-NS B-field and show the existence of spiky string and giant magnon as two limiting solutions. We make a connection to the sine-Gordon model via the Polyakov worldsheet action and study the effect of B-field. In particular, we find the magnon solution can be mapped to the excitation of a fractional spin chain. We conjecture a B-deformed SYM to be the gauge theory dual to this background.

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@article{arxiv.0809.3269,
  title  = {Giant Magnons and Spiky Strings on S^3 with B-field},
  author = {Chiang-Mei Chen and Jia-Hao Tsai and Wen-Yu Wen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0809.3269},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, 3 figures, more references added

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