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On T-duality and integrability for strings on AdS backgrounds

Riccardo Ricci1,2, Arkady A. Tseytlin1,3 and Martin Wolf1,3

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We discuss an interplay between T-duality and integrability for certain classical non-linear sigma models. In particular, we consider strings on the AdS5 × S5 background and perform T-duality along the four isometry directions of AdS5 in the Poincaré patch. The T-dual of the AdS5 sigma model is again a sigma model on an AdS5 space. This classical T-duality relation was used in the recently uncovered connection between light-like Wilson loops and MHV gluon scattering amplitudes in the strong coupling limit of the AdS/CFT duality. We show that the explicit coordinate dependence along the T-duality directions of the associated Lax connection (flat current) can be eliminated by means of a field dependent gauge transformation. As a result, the gauge equivalent Lax connection can easily be T-dualized, i.e. written in terms of the dual set of isometric coordinates. The T-dual Lax connection can be used for the derivation of infinitely many conserved charges in the T-dual model. Our construction implies that local (Noether) charges of the original model are mapped to non-local charges of the T-dual model and vice versa.

Keywords

Integrable Equations in Physics

Integrable Field Theories

AdS-CFT and dS-CFT Correspondence

Sigma Models

 

E-print Number: 0711.0707

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PACS

11.25.Hf Conformal field theory, algebraic structures

11.30.Pb Supersymmetry

11.15.-q Gauge field theories

Subjects

Particle physics and field theory

Dates

Issue 12 (December 2007)

Received 13 November 2007, accepted for publication 10 December 2007

Published 20 December 2007



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