Spiky Strings and Spin Chains
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-03-19 v2
Abstract
We determine spectral curves for the known spiky string solutions in AdS space in the limit of large angular momentum. We also construct generic multi-spike solutions in this limit and compute the corresponding spectral data. The resulting spectral curves precisely match those of the classical spin chain describing the dual operators in one-loop gauge theory. Our results confirm the map between string theory and gauge theory degrees of freedom proposed in arXiv:0805.4387 [hep-th].
Cite
@article{arxiv.0812.1704,
title = {Spiky Strings and Spin Chains},
author = {Nick Dorey and Manuel Losi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.1704},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
51 pages, 5 figures; added 1 reference, corrected typos