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Semiclassical strings and AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss AdS/CFT duality in the sector of ``semiclassical'' string states with large quantum numbers. We review the coherent-state effective action approach, in which similar 2d sigma model actions appear from the AdS_5 x S^5 string action and from the integrable spin chain Hamiltonian representing the N=4 super Yang-Mills dilatation operator. We consider mostly the leading-order terms in the energies/anomalous dimensions which match but comment also on higher-order corrections.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409296,
  title  = {Semiclassical strings and AdS/CFT},
  author = {A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409296},
  year   = {2007}
}

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34 pages. Contribution to Proceedings of Cargese Summer School, June 7-19, 2004, extended version of hep-th/0407218