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Quantum spectral curve for arbitrary state/operator in AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-14 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We give a derivation of quantum spectral curve (QSC) - a finite set of Riemann-Hilbert equations for exact spectrum of planar N=4 SYM theory proposed in our recent paper Phys.Rev.Lett. 112 (2014). We also generalize this construction to all local single trace operators of the theory, in contrast to the TBA-like approaches worked out only for a limited class of states. We reveal a rich algebraic and analytic structure of the QSC in terms of a so called Q-system -- a finite set of Baxter-like Q-functions. This new point of view on the finite size spectral problem is shown to be completely compatible, though in a far from trivial way, with already known exact equations (analytic Y-system/TBA, or FiNLIE). We use the knowledge of this underlying Q-system to demonstrate how the classical finite gap solutions and the asymptotic Bethe ansatz emerge from our formalism in appropriate limits.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1405.4857,
  title  = {Quantum spectral curve for arbitrary state/operator in AdS$_5$/CFT$_4$},
  author = {Nikolay Gromov and Vladimir Kazakov and Sebastien Leurent and Dmytro Volin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4857},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

96 pages, 15 figures; Some mathematica examples added in v2; Published version is v3

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