Rotating Wilson loops and open strings in AdS₃

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/46/7/075401MaRDI QIDQ4915688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Andrew Irrgang, Martín Kruczenski

Publication date 11 April 2013

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2298

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: The AdS/CFT correspondence relates N=4 super Yang-Mills on S3 to type IIB string theory on AdS5xS5. In this context, a quark/anti-quark pair moving on an S1 inside S3 following prescribed trajectories is dual to an open string ending on the boundary of AdS3. In this paper we study the corresponding classical string solutions. The Pohlmeyer reduction reduces the equations of motion to a generalized sinh-Gordon equation. This equation includes, as particular cases, the Liouville equation as well as the sinh/cosh-Gordon equations. We study generic solutions of the Liouville equation and finite gap solutions of the sinh/cosh-Gordon ones. The latter ones are written in terms of Riemann theta functions. The corresponding string solutions are reconstructed giving new solutions and a broad understanding of open strings moving in AdS3. As a further example, the simple case of a rigidly rotating string is shown to exhibit these three behaviors depending on a simple relation between its angular velocity and the angular separation between its endpoints.

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