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The One-Loop Spectral Problem of Strongly Twisted $\mathcal{N}$=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-05-01 v1

Abstract

We investigate the one-loop spectral problem of γ\gamma-twisted, planar N\mathcal{N}=4 Super Yang-Mills theory in the double-scaling limit of infinite, imaginary twist angle and vanishing Yang-Mills coupling constant. This non-unitary model has recently been argued to be a simpler version of full-fledged planar N\mathcal{N}=4 SYM, while preserving the latter model's conformality and integrability. We are able to derive for a number of sectors one-loop Bethe equations that allow finding anomalous dimensions for various subsets of diagonalizable operators. However, the non-unitarity of these deformed models results in a large number of non-diagonalizable operators, whose mixing is described by a very complicated structure of non-diagonalizable Jordan blocks of arbitrarily large size and with a priori unknown generalized eigenvalues. The description of these blocks by methods of integrability remains unknown.

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@article{arxiv.1812.08794,
  title  = {The One-Loop Spectral Problem of Strongly Twisted $\mathcal{N}$=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory},
  author = {Asger C. Ipsen and Matthias Staudacher and Leonard Zippelius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.08794},
  year   = {2019}
}

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