Speaker
Main supervisor (name and email)<br>and his / her institution
Robert de Mello Koch, robert@neo.phys.wits.ac.za,
University of the Witwatersrand
Apply to be<br> consider for a student <br> award (Yes / No)?
Yes
Level for award<br> (Hons, MSc, <br> PhD)?
Ph.D.
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)?
No
Abstract content <br> (Max 300 words)
According to the AdS/CFT correspondence, the conformal dimension of an operator in the N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory is dual to the energy of the
corresponding state in IIB string theory on the AdS5× S5 background. In this work, we solve the eigenvalue problem of the one-loop dilatation operator
acting on restricted Schur polynomials whose dimension is O(N), where N is large. After diagonalizing this action, the nonplanar anomalous dimension
spectrum is found to match that of a classical system of oscillating springs between masses. This result provides further support that these field theory
operators are dual to excited giant gravitons in the dual string theory.
