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Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 131601 (2009) [4 pages]

Exact Spectrum of Anomalous Dimensions of Planar N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

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Nikolay Gromov1, Vladimir Kazakov2, and Pedro Vieira3
1DESY Theory, Hamburg, Germany, and II. Institut für Theoretische Physik Universität, Hamburg, Germany, and St. Petersburg INP, St. Petersburg, Russia
2Ecole Normale Superieure, LPT, 75231 Paris CEDEX-5, France, and l’Université Paris-VI, Paris, France
3Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, 14476 Potsdam, Germany, and Centro de Fíca do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, 4169-007 Porto, Portugal

Received 16 March 2009; published 21 September 2009

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We present a set of functional equations defining the anomalous dimensions of arbitrary local single trace operators in planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. It takes the form of a Y system based on the integrability of the dual superstring σ model on the five-dimensional anti–de Sitter space (AdS5×S5) background. This Y system passes some very important tests: it incorporates the full asymptotic Bethe ansatz at large length of operator L, including the dressing factor, and it confirms all recently found wrapping corrections. The recently proposed AdS4/three-dimensional conformal field theory duality is also treated in a similar fashion.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.131601
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.131601
PACS:
11.25.Tq, 11.15.Tk, 11.30.Ly, 11.30.Pb