The spectral curve of segmented strings

2021/08/05 by Vegh, David
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2108.02674

Abstract

I show how to compute the spectral curve of piecewise linear Nambu-Goto strings in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime in terms of `celestial' embedding variables.

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