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NUCLEAR PHYSICS B
Volume 800, Issue 3, Pages 450-501Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2008.01.006
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AdS/CFT duality; Green-Schwarz action; 2d sigma models; integrability; sine-Gordon model
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Motivated by a desire to find a useful 2d Lorentz-invariant reformulation of the AdS(5) x S-5 superstring world-sheet theory in terms of physical degrees of freedom we construct the Pohlmeyer-reduced version of the corresponding sigma model. The Pohlmeyer reduction procedure involves several steps. Starting with a coset space string sigma model in the conformal gauge and writing the classical equations in terms of currents one can fix the residual conformal diffeomorphism symmetry and kappa-symmetry and introduce a new set of variables (related locally to currents but non-locally to the original string coordinate fields) so that the Virasoro constraints are automatically satisfied. The resulting equations can be obtained from a Lagrangian of a non-Abelian Toda type: a gauged WZW model with an integrable potential coupled also to a set of 2d fermionic fields. A gauge-fixed form of the Pohlmeyer-reduced theory can be found by integrating out the 2d gauge field of the gauged WZW model. The small-fluctuation spectrum near the trivial vacuum contains 8 bosonic and 8 fermionic degrees of freedom with equal mass. We conjecture that the reduced model has world-sheet supersymmetry and is ultraviolet-finite. We show that in the special case of the AdS(2) x S-2 superstring model the reduced theory is indeed supersymmetric: it is equivalent to the N = 2 supersymmetric extension of the sine-Gordon model. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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