Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2004-12-17
JHEP 0505:054,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
38 pages, LaTeX, JHEP3.cls
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/054
We argue that the recently discovered integrability in the large-N CFT/AdS system is equivalent to diffractionless scattering of the corresponding hidden elementary excitations. This suggests that, perhaps, the key tool for finding the spectrum of this system is neither the gauge theory's dilatation operator nor the string sigma model's quantum Hamiltonian, but instead the respective factorized S-matrix. To illustrate the idea, we focus on the closed fermionic su(1|1) sector of the N=4 gauge theory. We introduce a new technique, the perturbative asymptotic Bethe ansatz, and use it to extract this sector's three-loop S-matrix from Beisert's involved algebraic work on the three-loop su(2|3) sector. We then show that the current knowledge about semiclassical and near-plane-wave quantum strings in the su(2), su(1|1) and sl(2) sectors of AdS_5 x S^5 is fully consistent with the existence of a factorized S-matrix. Analyzing the available information, we find an intriguing relation between the three associated S-matrices. Assuming that the relation also holds in gauge theory, we derive the three-loop S-matrix of the sl(2) sector even though this sector's dilatation operator is not yet known beyond one loop. The resulting Bethe ansatz reproduces the three-loop anomalous dimensions of twist-two operators recently conjectured by Kotikov, Lipatov, Onishchenko and Velizhanin, whose work is based on a highly complex QCD computation of Moch, Vermaseren and Vogt.
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