Interpolating between gauge and string theory

par Benjamin Basso (Princeton University)

mardi 17 janv. 2012, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Paris

Auditorium Vivargent (Annecy-le-Vieux)

In this talk I will report on some precision test of the AdS/CFT correspondence in the sector of scaling dimensions of local Wilson operators in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. After a brief introduction to the Bethe ansatz approach to the spectral problem I will explain how to solve the relevant equations in two limits of interest, the small and large spin limit. I will then discuss the weak to strong coupling transition and demonstrate the agreement with the string theory predictions at strong coupling.

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