Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2008-03-11
JHEP0806:086,2008
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
53 pages, 22 figures; some significant typos corrected, references added
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/086
We perform a first principle semiclassical quantisation of the general finite-gap solution to the equations of a string moving on R x S^3. The derivation is only formal as we do not regularise divergent sums over stability angles. Moreover, with regards to the AdS/CFT correspondence the result is incomplete as the fluctuations orthogonal to this subspace in AdS_5 x S^5 are not taken into account. Nevertheless, the calculation serves the purpose of understanding how the moduli of the algebraic curve gets quantised semiclassically, purely from the point of view of finite-gap integration and with no input from the gauge theory side. Our result is expressed in a very compact and simple formula which encodes the infinite sum over stability angles in a succinct way and reproduces exactly what one expects from knowledge of the dual gauge theory. Namely, at tree level the filling fractions of the algebraic curve get quantised in large integer multiples of hbar = 1/lambda^{1/2}. At 1-loop order the filling fractions receive Maslov index corrections of hbar/2 and all the singular points of the spectral curve become filled with small half-integer multiples of hbar. For the subsector in question this is in agreement with the previously obtained results for the semiclassical energy spectrum of the string using the method proposed in hep-th/0703191. Along the way we derive the complete hierarchy of commuting flows for the string in the R x S^3 subsector. Moreover, we also derive a very general and simple formula for the stability angles around a generic finite-gap solution. We also stress the issue of quantum operator orderings since this problem already crops up at 1-loop in the form of the subprincipal symbol.
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