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Two-loop cusp anomaly in ABJM at strong coupling

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-22 v2

Abstract

We compute the null cusp anomalous dimension of ABJM theory at strong coupling up to two-loop order. This is done by evaluating corrections to the corresponding superstring partition function, weighted by the AdS4×CP3AdS_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3 action in AdS light-cone gauge. We compare our result, where we use an anomalous shift in the AdS4AdS_4 radius, with the cusp anomaly of N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM, and extract the two-loop contribution to the non-trivial integrable coupling h(λ)h(\lambda) of ABJM theory. It coincides with the strong coupling expansion of the exact expression for h(λ) h(\lambda) recently conjectured by Gromov and Sizov. Our work provides thus a non-trivial perturbative check for the latter, as well as evidence for two-loop UV-finiteness and quantum integrability of the Type IIA AdS4×CP3AdS_4\times \mathbb{CP}^3 superstring in this gauge.

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@article{arxiv.1407.4788,
  title  = {Two-loop cusp anomaly in ABJM at strong coupling},
  author = {Lorenzo Bianchi and Marco S. Bianchi and Alexis Bres and Valentina Forini and Edoardo Vescovi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4788},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

26 pages, few typos corrected, one footnote added, one reference added

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