Spinning superstrings at two loops: Strong-coupling corrections to dimensions of large-twist super Yang-Mills operators

Journal Article · Sat Mar 15 04:00:00 EDT 2008 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.77.066006· OSTI ID:21249887

Roiban, R ^[1]; Tseytlin, A A ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 (United States)
2. Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (United Kingdom)

We consider folded (S,J) spinning strings in AdS{sub 5}xS{sup 5} (with one spin component in AdS{sub 5} and a one in S{sup 5}) corresponding to the Tr(D{sup S}{phi}{sup J}) operators in the sl(2) sector of the N=4 super Yang-Mills theory in the special scaling limit in which both the string mass {approx}{radical}({lambda})lnS and J are sent to infinity with their ratio fixed. Expanding in the parameter l=(J/{radical}({lambda})lnS) we compute the 2-loop string sigma-model correction to the string energy and show that it agrees with the expression proposed by Alday and Maldacena [J. High Energy Phys. 11 (2007) 019]. We suggest that a resummation of the logarithmic l{sup 2}ln{sup n}l terms is necessary in order to establish an interpolation to the weakly coupled gauge-theory results. In the process, we set up a general framework for the calculation of higher loop corrections to the energy of multispin string configurations. In particular, we find that in addition to the direct 2-loop term in the string energy there is a contribution from lower loop order due to a finite 'renormalization' of the relation between the parameters of the classical solution and the fixed spins, i.e., the charges of the SO(2,4)xSO(6) symmetry.

• OSTI ID: 21249887
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 77; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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