Open Strings from N=4 Super Yang-Mills
By Vijay Balasubramanian, Min-xin Huang, T. S. Levi, A. Naqvi. 2002
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Exploiting insights on strings moving in pp-wave backgrounds, we show how open strings emerge from N = 4 SU(M) Yang-Mills theory as fluctuations around certain states carrying R-charge of order M. These states are dual to spherical D3-branes of AdS_5 x S^5 and we reproduce the spectrum of small fluctuations of these states from Yang Mills theory. When G such D3-branes coincide, the expected G^2 light degrees of freedom emerge. The open strings running between the branes can be quantized easily in a Penrose limit of the spacetime. Taking the corresponding large charge limit of the Yang-Mills theory, we reproduce the open string worldsheets and their spectra from field theory degrees of freedom.
Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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- On lightcone string field theory from Super Yang-Mills and holography (2002, background): “Open strings on pp waves arising from other branes were analyzed in [9, 10, 11, 12, 13] and other treatments of orbifolds appeared in [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20].”
- Giant gravitons—with strings attached (I) (2007, unknown): “The gauge theory operators dual to excited sphere giants are known and their anomalous dimensions reproduce the expected open string spectrum [12]1 Recently, operators dual to an arbitrary system of excited giant gravitons have been proposed in the insightful paper [16].”
- A toy model for the AdS/CFT correspondence (2004, background): “See [35, 33] once a framework for doing the semiclassical calculation is found.”