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Macroscopic (and microscopic) massless modes

Macroscopic (and microscopic) massless modes
Macroscopic (and microscopic) massless modes
We study certain spinning strings exploring the flat directions of AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1, the massless sector cousins of su(2) and sl(2) sector spinning strings. We describe these, and their vibrational modes, using the D(2,1;\alpha)^2 algebraic curve. By exploiting a discrete symmetry of this structure which reverses the direction of motion on the spheres, and alters the masses of the fermionic modes s \to 1-s, we find out how to treat the massless fermions which were previously missing from this formalism. We show that folded strings behave as a special case of circular strings, in a sense which includes their mode frequencies, and we are able to recover this fact in the worldsheet formalism. We use these frequencies to calculate one-loop corrections to the energy, with a version of the Beisert-Tseytlin resummation.
hep-th
75-107
Abbott, Michael C.
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Aniceto, Inês
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Abbott, Michael C.
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Aniceto, Inês
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Abbott, Michael C. and Aniceto, Inês (2015) Macroscopic (and microscopic) massless modes. Nuclear Physics B, 894, 75-107. (doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2015.02.022).

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Abstract

We study certain spinning strings exploring the flat directions of AdS3 x S3 x S3 x S1, the massless sector cousins of su(2) and sl(2) sector spinning strings. We describe these, and their vibrational modes, using the D(2,1;\alpha)^2 algebraic curve. By exploiting a discrete symmetry of this structure which reverses the direction of motion on the spheres, and alters the masses of the fermionic modes s \to 1-s, we find out how to treat the massless fermions which were previously missing from this formalism. We show that folded strings behave as a special case of circular strings, in a sense which includes their mode frequencies, and we are able to recover this fact in the worldsheet formalism. We use these frequencies to calculate one-loop corrections to the energy, with a version of the Beisert-Tseytlin resummation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 23 February 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 March 2015
Published date: May 2015
Keywords: hep-th

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Local EPrints ID: 424141
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424141
PURE UUID: 36695f44-a7f4-4911-ad9b-262f2c84182a
ORCID for Inês Aniceto: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4468-0066

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Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:39

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Author: Michael C. Abbott
Author: Inês Aniceto ORCID iD

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