# Massless $AdS_2$ scattering and Bethe ansatz

## TL;DR

This paper investigates the integrable scattering theory of massless excitations in AdS2 superstrings, deriving Bethe-ansatz conditions and constructing a dressing factor, advancing understanding of massless string scattering.

## Contribution

It introduces a Bethe-ansatz method for massless AdS2 scattering, including a new dressing factor and generalization to non-relativistic cases, filling gaps in the integrable scattering framework.

## Key findings

- Derived Bethe-ansatz conditions for massless AdS2 scattering.
- Constructed a dressing factor based on relativistic crossing symmetry.
- Extended the method to non-relativistic massless cases and compared with existing conjectures.

## Abstract

We first analyse the integrable scattering theory describing the massless excitations of $AdS_2 \times S^2 \times T^6$ superstrings in the relativistic limit. The matrix part of the S-matrix is obtained in the BMN limit from the conjectured exact expression, and compared with known S-matrices with N=1 supersymmetry. A dressing factor, yet unknown for the complete theory, is here constructed based on relativistic crossing symmetry. We derive a Bethe-ansatz condition by employing a transfer-matrix technique based on the so-called free-fermion condition. This is known to overcome the problem of lack of a reference state. We then generalise the method to the massless non-relativistic case, and compare the resulting Bethe-ansatz condition with a simple massless limit of the one conjectured by Sorokin, Tseytlin, Wulff and Zarembo.