Giant magnon bound states from strongly coupledN=4super Yang-Mills theory

2007/07/31 by David Berenstein, Samuel E. Vázquez, Samuel E. Vazquez
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.026005

published as Phys.Rev.D77:026005,2008 · 19 pages, uses revtex

arxiv created 2007/07/31 · openalex publication_date 2008/01/18 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We calculate in a very simple way the spectrum of giant magnon bound states at strong coupling in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory (SYM), by utilizing the description of the field theory vacuum in terms of a condensate of eigenvalues of commuting matrices. We further show that these calculations can be understood in terms of the central charge extension that permits the calculation of Bogomol'nyi-Prasad-Sommerfield masses in the Coulomb branch of N=4 SYM. This paper shows further evidence that the strong coupling expansion of the maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in four dimensions can be done systematically from first principles, without the assumption of integrability.

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