Quantizing String Theory in AdS_5 X S^5: Beyond the pp-Wave

Details Quantizing String Theory in AdS_5 X S^5: Beyond the pp-Wave Quantizing String Theory in AdS_5 X S^5: Beyond the pp-Wave

2003-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307032v3

Nucl.Phys.B673:3-40,2003

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

39 pages; substantial improvements

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2003.09.008

In a certain kinematic limit, where the effects of spacetime curvature (and other background fields) greatly simplify, the light-cone gauge world-sheet action for a type IIB superstring on AdS_5 x S^5 reduces to that of a free field theory. It has been conjectured by Berenstein, Maldacena, and Nastase that the energy spectrum of this string theory matches the dimensions of operators in the appropriately defined large R-charge large-N_c sector of N=4 supersymmetric Yang--Mills theory in four dimensions. This holographic equivalence is thought to be exact, independent of any simplifying kinematic limits. As a step toward verifying this larger conjecture, we have computed the complete set of first curvature corrections to the spectrum of light-cone gauge string theory that arises in the expansion of AdS_5 x S^5 about the plane-wave limit. The resulting spectrum has the complete dependence on lambda = g_YM^2 N_c; corresponding results in the gauge theory are known only to second order in lambda. We find precise agreement to this order, including the N=4 extended supermultiplet structure. In the process, we demonstrate that the complicated schemes put forward in recent years for defining the Green--Schwarz superstring action in background Ramond-Ramond fields can be reduced to a practical (and correct) method for quantizing the string.

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