%0 Journal Article
%A Hernández Redondo, Rafael
%A López, Esperanza
%T The SU(3) spin chain sigma model and string theory
%D 2004
%@ 1126-6708
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/52163
%X The ferromagnetic integrable SU(3) spin chain provides the one loop anomalous dimension of single trace operators involving the three complex scalars of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills. We construct the non-linear sigma model describing the continuum limit of the SU(3) spin chain. We find that this sigma model corresponds to a string moving with large angular momentum in the five-sphere in AdS5 × S 5 . The energy and spectrum of fluctuations for rotating circular strings with angular momenta along three orthogonal directions of the five-sphere is reproduced as a particular case from the spin chain sigma model.
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