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Strings on NS-NS Backgrounds as Integrable Deformations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-07-25 v2

Abstract

We consider the worldsheet S matrix of superstrings on an AdS3xS3xT4 NS-NS background in uniform light-cone gauge. We argue that scattering is given by a CDD factor that is non-trivial only between opposite-chirality particles, yielding a spin-chain-like Bethe Ansatz. Our proposal reproduces the spectrum of non-protected states computed from the Wess-Zumino-Witten description and the perturbative tree-level S matrix. This suggests that the model is an integrable deformation of a free theory similar to those arising from the T-Tbar composite operator.

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@article{arxiv.1804.01998,
  title  = {Strings on NS-NS Backgrounds as Integrable Deformations},
  author = {Marco Baggio and Alessandro Sfondrini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.01998},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

6 pages; v2: typos fixed, footnote [46] added

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