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On the spectral problem of \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) SYM with orthogonal or symplectic gauge group

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We study the spectral problem of \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) SYM with gauge group SO(N) and Sp(N). At the planar level, the difference to the case of gauge group SU(N) is only due to certain states being projected out, however at the non-planar level novel effects appear: While \( \frac{1}{N}{\text{-corrections}} \) in the SU(N) case are always associated with splitting and joining of spin chains, this is not so for SO(N) and Sp(N). Here the leading \( \frac{1}{N}{\text{-corrections}} \), which are due to non-orientable Feynman diagrams in the field theory, originate from a term in the dilatation operator which acts inside a single spin chain. This makes it possible to test for integrability of the leading \( \frac{1}{N}{\text{-corrections}} \) by standard (Bethe ansatz) means and we carry out various such tests. None of these point to the presence of integrability. For orthogonal and symplectic gauge group the dual string theory lives on the orientifold \( {\text{Ad}}{{\text{s}}_5} \times \mathbb{R}{{\text{P}}^5} \). We discuss various issues related to semi-classical strings on this background.

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Caputa, P., Kristjansen, C. & Zoubos, K. On the spectral problem of \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) SYM with orthogonal or symplectic gauge group. J. High Energ. Phys. 2010, 82 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2010)082

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