Worldsheet kinematics, dressing factors and odd crossing in mixed-flux AdS3 backgrounds

TL;DR

This paper investigates the kinematics, analytic structure, and S-matrix dressing factors of worldsheet excitations in mixed-flux AdS3 backgrounds, revealing new insights into integrability and crossing symmetry in these theories.

Contribution

It introduces a novel scalar dressing factor with u-plane periodicity and analyzes the odd crossing equation, connecting to the XXZ model and previous results in the relativistic limit.

Findings

Proposed a new scalar dressing factor consistent with u-plane periodicity.

Solved the odd crossing equation and confirmed its consistency with fusion.

Connected the dressing phase to the XXZ model at roots of unity.

Abstract

String theory on AdS${}_3\times$ S${}^3\times$ T${}^4$ geometries supported by a combination of NS-NS and R-R charges is believed to be integrable. We elucidate the kinematics and analytic structure of worldsheet excitations in mixed charge and pure NS-NS backgrounds, when expressed in momentum, Zhukovsky variables and the rapidity $u$ which appears in the quantum spectral curve. We discuss the relations between fundamental and bound state excitations and the role of fusion in constraining and determining the S matrices of these theories. We propose a scalar dressing factor consistent with a novel $u$-plane periodicity and comment on its close relation to the XXZ model at roots of unity. We solve the odd part of crossing and show that our solution is consistent with fusion and reduces in the relativistic limit to dressing phases previously found in the literature.