Regge Spectroscopy of Higher-Twist States in <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="script">N</mml:mi><mml:mo>=</mml:mo><mml:mn>4</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:math> Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

We study a family of higher-twist Regge trajectories in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory using the quantum spectral curve. We explore the many-sheeted Riemann surface connecting the different trajectories and show the interplay between the degenerate nonlocal operators known as (near-)horizontal trajectories. We resolve their degeneracy analytically by computing the first nontrivial order of the Regge intercept at weak coupling, which exhibits new behavior: It depends linearly on the coupling. This is consistent with our numerics, which interpolate all the way to strong coupling.

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