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Spinning strings in AdS_5 x S^5: one-loop correction to energy in SL(2) sector

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-09-17 v3

Abstract

We consider a circular string with spin SS in AdS5AdS_5 wrapped around big circle of S5S^5 and carrying also momentum JJ. The corresponding N=4 SYM operator belongs to the SL(2) sector, i.e. has tr(DSZJ)+...(D^S Z^J)+... structure. The leading large JJ term in its 1-loop anomalous dimension can be computed using Bethe ansatz for the SL(2) spin chain and was previously found to match the leading term in the classical string energy. The string solution is stable at large JJ, and the Lagrangian for string fluctuations has constant coefficients, so that the 1-loop string correction to the energy E1E_1 is given simply by the sum of characteristic frequencies. Curiously, we find that the leading term in the zero-mode part of E1E_1 is the same as a 1/J correction to the one-loop anomalous dimension on the gauge theory (spin chain) side that was found in hep-th/0410105. However, the contribution of non-zero string modes does not vanish. We also discuss the ``fast string'' expansion of the classical string action which coincides with the coherent state action of the SL(2) spin chain at the first order in \l\l, and extend this expansion to higher orders clarifying the role of the S5S^5 winding number.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0501203,
  title  = {Spinning strings in AdS_5 x S^5: one-loop correction to energy in SL(2) sector},
  author = {I. Y. Park and A. Tirziu and A. A. Tseytlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0501203},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

31 pages, 1 figure, latex; v3: minor changes and corrections