Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2006-04-18
JHEP0609:065,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
38 pages+appendices, 9 figures. Uses JHEP3. v2: added references
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2006/09/065
We systematically study the spectrum of open strings attached to half BPS giant gravitons in the N=4 SYM AdS/CFT setup. We find that some null trajectories along the giant graviton are actually null geodesics of AdS_5x S^5, so that we can study the problem in a plane wave limit setup. We also find the description of these states at weak 't Hooft coupling in the dual CFT. We show how the dual description is given by an open spin chain with variable number of sites. We analyze this system in detail and find numerical evidence for integrability. We also discover an interesting instability of long open strings in Ramond-Ramond backgrounds that is characterized by having a continuum spectrum of the string, which is separated from the ground state by a gap. This instability arises from accelerating the D-brane on which the strings end via the Ramond-Ramond field. From the integrable spin chain point of view, this instability prevents us from formulating the integrable structure in terms of a Bethe Ansatz construction.
Berenstein David
Correa Diego H.
Vazquez Samuel E.
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