Spiky strings, light-like Wilson loops and pp-wave anomaly

Details Spiky strings, light-like Wilson loops and pp-wave anomaly Spiky strings, light-like Wilson loops and pp-wave anomaly

2008-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/0802.2039v2

Phys.Rev.D77:126005,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

28 pages, 2 eps figures, LaTeX. v2: typos corrected

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.126005

We consider rigid rotating closed strings with spikes in AdS5 dual to certain higher twist operators in N=4 SYM theory. In the limit of large spin when the spikes reach the boundary of AdS5, the solutions with different numbers of spikes are related by conformal transformations, implying that their energy is determined by the same function of the `t Hooft coupling f(lambda) that appears in the anomalous dimension of twist 2 operators or in the cusp anomaly. In the limit when the number of spikes goes to infinity, we find an equivalent description in terms of a string moving in an AdS pp-wave background. From the boundary theory point of view, the corresponding description is based on the gauge theory living in a 4d pp-wave space. Then, considering a charge moving at the speed of light, or a null Wilson line, we find that the integrated energy momentum tensor has a logarithmic UV divergence whose coefficient we call the "pp-wave anomaly". The AdS/CFT correspondence implies that, for N=4 SYM, this pp-wave anomaly should have the same value as the cusp anomaly. We verify this at lowest order in SYM perturbation theory. As a side result of our string theory analysis, we find new open string solutions in the Poincare patch of the standard AdS space which end on a light-like Wilson line and also in two parallel light-like Wilson lines at the boundary.

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