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Giant graviton oscillators

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We study the action of the dilatation operator on restricted Schur polynomials labeled by Young diagrams with p long columns or p long rows. A new version of Schur-Weyl duality provides a powerful approach to the computation and manipulation of the symmetric group operators appearing in the restricted Schur polynomials. Using this new technology, we are able to evaluate the action of the one loop dilatation operator. The result has a direct and natural connection to the Gauss Law constraint for branes with a compact world volume. We find considerable evidence that the dilatation operator reduces to a decoupled set of harmonic oscillators. This strongly suggests that integrability in \( \mathcal{N} = 4 \) super Yang-Mills theory is not just a feature of the planar limit, but extends to other large N but non-planar limits.

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    Robert de Mello Koch, Matthias Dessein, Dimitrios Giataganas & Christopher Mathwin

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de Mello Koch, R., Dessein, M., Giataganas, D. et al. Giant graviton oscillators. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 9 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)009

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