We consider classical string spectrum of R t × CP 3 , and construct a family of solutions with residual SU(2) symmetry by the dressing method on SU(4)/U(3) sigma model. All of them obey the square-root type dispersion relation often found in the theory with su(2|2) symmetry. A single dyonic giant magnon is not found in this approach.
rsuzuki@maths.tcd.ieAn effective field theory of coincident membranes with N = 8 superconformal symmetry in 1+2 dimensions is proposed by Bagger, Lambert, and Gustavsson (BLG) based on three-algebra [1,2,3]. Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena (ABJM) proposed an N = 6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theory with a tunable coupling constant λ = N/k by generalizing the BLG theory to incorporate U(N) k × U(N) −k symmetry group -which coincides with the special case of [4,5] -and argued that their model at the 't Hooft limit is dual to type IIA superstring theory on the AdS 4 × CP 3 background [6,7].The IIA on AdS 4 × CP 3 is less supersymmetric than the IIB on AdS 5 × S 5 , which was conjectured to be dual to N = 4 super Yang-Mills in 1+3 dimensions [8]. Integrability has provided us a powerful tool to study the AdS 5 /CFT 4 correspondence, and a matter of central concern is whether and how similar techniques are applied to the AdS 4 /CFT 3 case.Despite huge and rapid progress on this subject, no conclusive answer has been given. Looking on the positive side, one finds the integrability of two-loop Hamiltonian in ABJM model [9,10,11,12], classical integrability of superstring action (except for a subtle issue concerning strings in AdS 4 ) [13,14,15], 1 and the proposal of all-loop Bethe Ansatz [20,21,22,23], which is consistent with near-plane wave limit of string theory [24,25,26,27,28]. On the negative side, one finds disagreement between the one-loop energy of folded or circular string, and the proposed Bethe Ansatz [29,30,31,32,33].More data, especially the examples that are not found in AdS 5 × S 5 case, are necessary to refine our understanding of the AdS 4 /CFT 3 duality and its integrability [34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42]. A good starting point will be to reconsider the correspondence between magnons in the asymptotic spin chain and giant magnon solutions on the decompactified worldsheet [43,44,45,25], as one could expect nice examples of the duality owing to the su(2|2) symmetry.The description by algebraic curve tells the classical string spectrum and its dispersion in a simple way [46,47]. Yet, to obtain further information such as (semiclassical) quantization and scattering [48,49,50,51,52], 2 it is useful to construct an explicit profile of the corresponding string solution.The aim of this paper is to construct the explicit profile of classical strings on which only the existence and the dispersion have been known so far by means of algebraic curve. The relationship between a string solution and an algebraic curve is not explicit in general, so we have to construct the classical string solution from scratch. This sort of problem is quite difficult in general, due to th...