Published July 17, 2003 | Version v1
Journal article

Note on plane wave quantum mechanics

Description

We study the quantum mechanics of BMN operators with two scalar impurities and arbitrarily many traces, at one loop and all genus. We prove an operator identity which partially elucidates the structure of this quantum mechanics, provides some support for a conjectured formula for the free all genus two-point functions, and demonstrates that a single O(g22) contact term arises in the Hamiltonian as a result of transforming from the natural gauge theory basis to the string basis. We propose to identify the S-matrix of this quantum mechanics with the S-matrix of string theory in the plane-wave background

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/S0370-2693;
PII
S0370269303007585;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
565
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 253-265
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37103912
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
FUNCTIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; HAMILTONIANS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; S MATRIX; STRING MODELS
Descriptors DEC
COMPOSITE MODELS; EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRICES; MECHANICS; PARTICLE MODELS; QUANTUM OPERATORS; QUARK MODEL

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Copyright (c) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.