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Supersymmetric null-surfaces

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v4

Abstract

Single trace operators with the large R-charge in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory correspond to the null-surfaces in AdS5×S5AdS_5\times S^5. We argue that the moduli space of the null-surfaces is the space of contours in the super-Grassmanian parametrizing the complex (22)(2|2)-dimensional subspaces of the complex (44)(4|4)-dimensional space. The odd coordinates on this super-Grassmanian correspond to the fermionic degrees of freedom of the superstring.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0404173,
  title  = {Supersymmetric null-surfaces},
  author = {Andrei Mikhailov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0404173},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

v4: added a reference to the earlier work; corrected the formula for the stabilizer of the BMN vacuum; added the discussion of the complex structure of the odd coordinates in Section 3.2