From polygon Wilson loops to spin chains and back

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2012)065zbMATH Open1397.81327arXiv1208.0841OpenAlexW2011179494MaRDI QIDQ1796196FDOQ1796196

Pedro Vieira, Tianheng Wang, Amit Sever

Publication date: 16 October 2018

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

Abstract: Null Polygon Wilson Loops (WL) in N=4 SYM can be computed using the Operator Product Expansion in terms of a transition amplitude on top of a color flux tube (FT). That picture is valid at any value of the 't Hooft coupling. So far it has been efficiently used at weak coupling (WC) in cases where only a single particle is flowing. At any finite value of the coupling however, an infinite number of particles are flowing on top of the color FT. A major open problem in this approach was how to deal with generic multi-particle states at WC. In this paper we study the propagation of any number of FT excitations at WC. We do this by first mapping the WL into a sum of two point functions of local operators. This map allows us to translate the integrability techniques developed for the spectrum problem back to the WL. E.g., the FT Hamiltonian can be represented as a simple kernel acting on the loop. Having an explicit representation for the FT Hamiltonian allows us to treat any number of particles on an equal footing. We use it to bootstrap some simple cases where two particles are flowing, dual to N2MHV amplitudes. The FT is integrable and therefore has other (infinite set of) conserved charges. The generating function of conserved charges is constructed from the monodromy (M) matrix between sides of the polygon. We compute it for some simple examples at leading order at WC. At strong coupling (SC), these Ms were the main ingredients of the Y-system solution. To connect the WC and SC computations, we study a case where an infinite number of particles are propagating already at leading order at WC. We obtain a precise match between the WC and SC Ms. That match is the WL analogue of the well known Frolov-Tseytlin limit where the WC and SC descriptions become identical. Hopefully, putting the WC and SC descriptions on the same footing is the first step in understanding the all loop structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0841

zbMATH Keywords

't Hooft and Polyakov loopsAdS-CFT correspondenceintegrable field theoriesscattering amplitudesWilson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45)

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