Lattice and string worldsheet in AdS/CFT: a numerical study

Jan 18, 2016
7 pages
Published in:
  • PoS LATTICE2015 (2016) 244
Contribution to:
  • Published: Jan 18, 2016 by SISSA
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Report number:
  • HU-EP-16-04,
  • QMUL-PH-16-01

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We consider a possible discretization for the gauge-fixed Green-Schwarz (two-dimensional) sigma-model action for the Type IIB superstring and use it for measuring the cusp anomalous dimension of planar N=4\mathcal{N}=4 SYM as derived from string theory. We perform lattice simulations employing a Rational Hybrid Monte Carlo (RHMC) algorithm and a Wilson-like fermion discretization. In this preliminary study, we compare our results with the expected behavior for very large values of g=λ4πg=\frac{\sqrt{\lambda}}{4\pi}, which is the perturbative regime of the sigma-model, and find a qualitative agreement at finite lattice spacing. For smaller gg the continuum limit is obstructed by a divergence. We also detect a phase in the fermion determinant, whose origin we explain, which for small gg leads to a sign problem not treatable via standard reweigthing. Results presented here are discussed thoroughly in~\cite{toappear}.
Note:
  • Contribution to the proceedings of Lattice 2015, July 14--18, Kobe, Japan
  • superstring: Type IIB
  • AdS/CFT correspondence
  • fermion: determinant
  • Monte Carlo: hybrid
  • numerical calculations
  • lattice
  • sigma model
  • dimension: 2
  • Green-Schwarz
  • fermion: Wilson