The spectral curve of segmented strings

Abstract

I show how to compute the spectral curve of piecewise linear Nambu-Goto strings in three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime in terms of `celestial' embedding variables.

arXiv comment30 pages, 8 figures

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