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The Intermediate Coupling Regime in the AdS/CFT Correspondence

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

The correspondence between the 't Hooft limit of N=4 super Yang-Mills theory and tree-level IIB superstring theory on AdS(5)xS(5) in a Ramond-Ramond background at values of lambda=g^2 N ranging from infinity to zero is examined in the context of unitarity. A squaring relation for the imaginary part of the holographic scattering of identical string fields in the two-particle channels is found, and a mismatch between weak and strong 't Hooft coupling is pointed out within the correspondence. Several interpretations and implications are proposed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9907015,
  title  = {The Intermediate Coupling Regime in the AdS/CFT Correspondence},
  author = {Gordon Chalmers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9907015},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, LaTeX, reference added

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