Giant magnon bound states from strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory

Journal Article · Tue Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.77.026005· OSTI ID:21038981

Berenstein, David; Vazquez, Samuel E ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)

We calculate in a very simple way the spectrum of giant magnon bound states at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory (SYM), by utilizing the description of the field theory vacuum in terms of a condensate of eigenvalues of commuting matrices. We further show that these calculations can be understood in terms of the central charge extension that permits the calculation of Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield masses in the Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM. This paper shows further evidence that the strong coupling expansion of the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions can be done systematically from first principles, without the assumption of integrability.

• OSTI ID: 21038981
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 77, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.026005; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
BOUND STATE
EIGENVALUES
MAGNONS
MATRICES
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
REST MASS
SUPERSYMMETRY
VACUUM STATES
YANG-MILLS THEORY