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Pohlmeyer reduction and Darboux transformations in Euclidean worldsheet AdS_3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-04 v2

Abstract

Pohlmeyer reduction has been instrumental both in the program for computing gluon scattering amplitudes at strong coupling, and more recently in the progress towards semiclassical three-point correlators of heavy operators in AdS/CFT. After a detailed review of the method, we combine it with Darboux and Crum transformations in order to obtain a class of string solutions corresponding to an arbitrary number of kinks and breathers of the elliptic sinh-Gordon equation. We also use our construction in order to identify the previously found dressed giant gluon with the single breather solution.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3460,
  title  = {Pohlmeyer reduction and Darboux transformations in Euclidean worldsheet AdS_3},
  author = {Georgios Papathanasiou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3460},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

29 pages. v2: references and clarifications added; to appear in JHEP

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