2002/04/30 by Vijay Balasubramanian, Min-xin Huang, Thomas S. Levi +2 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Charge (physics) #Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) #Field (mathematics) #Limit (mathematics) #Order (exchange) #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum and Classical Electrodynamics #Spectrum (functional analysis) #String (physics) #String field theory #String theory #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/08/037
published as JHEP 0208:037,2002 · V4: Typos and anomalous dimension calculation corrected, 20 pages
openalex publication_date 2002/08/23 · arxiv created 2004/03/07 · arxiv updated 2014/11/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
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 AdS5 x S5 and we reproduce the spectrum of small fluctuations of these states from Yang Mills theory. When G such D3-branes coincide, the expected G2 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.