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Worldsheet Form Factors in AdS/CFT

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-07-31 v3

Abstract

We formulate a set of consistency conditions appropriate to worldsheet form factors in the massive, integrable but non-relativistic, light-cone gauge fixed AdS(5) x S**5 string theory. We then perturbatively verify that these conditions hold, at tree level in the near-plane-wave limit and to one loop in the near-flat (Maldacena-Swanson) limit, for a number of specific cases. We further study the form factors in the weakly coupled dual description, verifying that the relevant conditions naturally hold for the one-loop Heisenberg spin-chain. Finally, we note that the near-plane-wave expressions for the form factors, when further expanded in small momentum or, equivalently, large charge density, reproduce the thermodynamic limit of the spin-chain results at leading order.

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@article{arxiv.1208.2020,
  title  = {Worldsheet Form Factors in AdS/CFT},
  author = {Thomas Klose and Tristan McLoughlin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2020},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

30 pages, 12 figures, v3: typos fixed, improved discussion of bound states and bound state axiom

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