Published August 15, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Classical worldsheets for string scattering on flat and AdS spacetime

  • 1. Institute for Fundamental Theory, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville Florida 32611 (United States)

Description

We present a study of the worldsheets that describe the classical limit of various string scattering processes. Our main focus is on string scattering in AdS spacetime because of its relation via the AdS/CFT (anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory) correspondence to gluon scattering in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. But we also consider analogous processes in flat Minkowski spacetime which we compare to the AdS case. In addition to scattering of string by string we also find and study worldsheets describing the scattering of a string by external sources.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 046005-046005.16
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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(c) 2008 The American Physical Society