TY - JOUR
T1 - Generalized scaling function from light-cone gauge AdS 5 × S5 superstring
AU - Giombi, S.
AU - Ricci, R.
AU - Roiban, R.
AU - Tseytlin, A. A.
AU - Vergu, C.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - We revisit the computation of the 2-loop correction to the energy of a folded spinning string in AdS5 with an angular momentum J in S5 in the scaling limit ln S « 1, J/√λ ln S = fixed. This correction gives the third term in the strong-coupling expansion of the generalized scaling function. The computation, using the AdS light-cone gauge approach developed in our previous paper, is done by expanding the AdS 5 × S5 superstring partition function near the generalized null cusp world surface associated to the spinning string solution. The result corrects and extends the previous conformal gauge result of arXiv:0712.2479 and is found to be in complete agreement with the corresponding terms in the generalized scaling function as obtained from the asymptotic Bethe ansatz in arXiv:0805.4615 (and also partially from the quantum O(6) model and the Bethe ansatz data in arXiv:0809.4952). This provides a highly nontrivial strong coupling comparison of the Bethe ansatz proposal with the quantum AdS 5 × S5 superstring theory, which goes beyond the leading semiclassical term effectively controlled by the underlying algebraic curve. The 2-loop computation we perform involves all the structures in the AdS light-cone gauge superstring action of hep-th/0009171 and thus tests its ultraviolet finiteness and, through the agreement with the Bethe ansatz, its quantum integrability. We do most of the computations for a generalized spinning string solution or the corresponding null cusp surface that involves both the orbital momentum and the winding in a large circle of S5.
AB - We revisit the computation of the 2-loop correction to the energy of a folded spinning string in AdS5 with an angular momentum J in S5 in the scaling limit ln S « 1, J/√λ ln S = fixed. This correction gives the third term in the strong-coupling expansion of the generalized scaling function. The computation, using the AdS light-cone gauge approach developed in our previous paper, is done by expanding the AdS 5 × S5 superstring partition function near the generalized null cusp world surface associated to the spinning string solution. The result corrects and extends the previous conformal gauge result of arXiv:0712.2479 and is found to be in complete agreement with the corresponding terms in the generalized scaling function as obtained from the asymptotic Bethe ansatz in arXiv:0805.4615 (and also partially from the quantum O(6) model and the Bethe ansatz data in arXiv:0809.4952). This provides a highly nontrivial strong coupling comparison of the Bethe ansatz proposal with the quantum AdS 5 × S5 superstring theory, which goes beyond the leading semiclassical term effectively controlled by the underlying algebraic curve. The 2-loop computation we perform involves all the structures in the AdS light-cone gauge superstring action of hep-th/0009171 and thus tests its ultraviolet finiteness and, through the agreement with the Bethe ansatz, its quantum integrability. We do most of the computations for a generalized spinning string solution or the corresponding null cusp surface that involves both the orbital momentum and the winding in a large circle of S5.
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U2 - 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)060
DO - 10.1007/JHEP06(2010)060
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84856366890
SN - 1126-6708
VL - 2010
JO - Journal of High Energy Physics
JF - Journal of High Energy Physics
IS - 6
M1 - 60
ER -