23–26 Sept 2014
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

Two-loop cusp anomaly in ABJM at strong coupling

25 Sept 2014, 14:00
20m
Seminar room 1 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 1

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg

Speaker

Mr Edoardo Vescovi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Description

We compute the null cusp anomalous dimension of ABJM theory at strong coupling up to two-loop order. This is done by evaluating corrections to the corresponding superstring partition function, weighted by the AdS4×CP3 action in AdS light-cone gauge. We compare our result, where we use an anomalous shift in the AdS4 radius, with the cusp anomaly of N=4 SYM, and extract the two-loop contribution to the non-trivial integrable coupling h(λ) of ABJM theory. It coincides with the strong coupling expansion of the exact expression for h(λ) recently conjectured by Gromov and Sizov. Our work provides thus a non-trivial perturbative check for the latter, as well as evidence for two-loop UV-finiteness and quantum integrability of the Type IIA AdS4×CP3 superstring in this gauge. Based on the paper arXiv:1407.4788.

Primary author

Mr Edoardo Vescovi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Co-authors

Mr Alexis Bres (Ecole Normale Superieure) Mr Lorenzo Bianchi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Dr Marco S. Bianchi (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Dr Valentina Forini (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

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