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Spin Chain for Quantum Strings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-03-23 v2

Abstract

We review and compare the integrable structures in N=4 gauge theory and string theory on AdS5xS5. Recently, Bethe ansaetze for gauge theory/weak coupling and string theory/strong coupling were proposed to describe scaling dimensions in the su(2) subsector. Here we investigate the Bethe equations for quantum string theory, naively extrapolated to weak coupling. Excitingly, we find a spin chain Hamiltonian similar, but not equal, to the gauge theory dilatation operator.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409054,
  title  = {Spin Chain for Quantum Strings},
  author = {Niklas Beisert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409054},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

10 pages, Contribution to RTN and EXT Workshop, Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, 5-10 September 2004, v2: numerical comparision with spinning strings added, coefficient of H4 in Tab. 3 corrected