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Planar quark scattering at strong coupling and universality

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-02-03 v3

Abstract

We discuss scattering of fundamental matter in the planar and strong coupling limit via the AdS/CFT correspondence, generalizing the recently proposed calculation for adjoint matter due to Alday and Maldacena [arXiv:0705.0303]. Color decomposition of quark amplitudes is a key property allowing to repeat the procedure in the case of fundamental matter and to derive the relation of these strong coupling amplitudes to minimal area problems. We present the results for two different D3-D7 systems, one is only conformal in the planar limit and the other is exactly conformal. Our results suggest a universal behavior of scattering amplitudes at strong coupling and planar limit (both for gluons and quarks).

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@article{arxiv.0707.4367,
  title  = {Planar quark scattering at strong coupling and universality},
  author = {Zohar Komargodski and Shlomo S. Razamat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.4367},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

13 pages, 4 figures, JHEP format. v2: added references and minor corrections. v3: following arXiv:0710.0393 we change our claim about a minimal surface solution without spike singularities. We make the appropriate corrections where necessary

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