Semiclassical strings exactly

by Valentina Forini (AEI, Potsdam)

Wednesday 7 Jul 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Stockholm

Nordita seminar room 132:028 (Nordita)

Semiclassical quantization of rotating superstrings in AdS5xS5 background has played in recent years a key role both in checking the AdS/CFT duality and in building the tools necessary to describe the integrable structures that underly it.   I describe the exact quantization of a nontrivial spinning string configuration  at leading semiclassical (1-loop) order and extract information on the strong coupling structure of operator dimensions in the dual gauge theory.