Integrable S matrix, mirror TBA and spectrum for the stringy AdS₃ S^3 S^3 S^1 WZW model

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DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2019)072zbMATH Open1411.83117arXiv1812.08195MaRDI QIDQ1735581FDOQ1735581


Authors: Andrea Dei, Alessandro Sfondrini Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 28 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the tree-level bosonic S matrix in light-cone gauge for superstrings on pure-NSNS extAdS3imesextS3imesextS3imesextS1. We show that it is proportional to the identity and that it takes the same form as for extAdS3imesextS3imesextT4 and for flat space. Based on this, we make a conjecture for the exact worldsheet S matrix and derive the mirror thermodynamic Bethe ansatz (TBA) equations describing the spectrum. Despite a non-trivial vacuum energy, they can be solved in closed form and coincide with a simple set of Bethe ansatz equations - again much like extAdS3imesextS3imesextT4 and flat space. This suggests that the model may have an integrable spin-chain interpretation. Finally, as a check of our proposal, we compute the spectrum from the worldsheet CFT in the case of highest-weight representations of the underlying Kav{c}-Moody algebras, and show that the mirror-TBA prediction matches it on the nose.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08195




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