Towards the quantum S-matrix of the Pohlmeyer reduced version of AdS5×S5AdS5×S5 superstring theory

We investigate the structure of the quantum S-matrix for perturbative excitations of the Pohlmeyer reduced version of the AdS5×S5AdS5×S5 superstring following arXiv:0912.2958. The reduced theory is a fermionic extension of a gauged WZW model with an integrable potential. We use as an input the result of the one-loop perturbative scattering amplitude computation and an analogy with simpler reduced AdSn×SnAdSn×Sn theories with n=2,3n=2,3. The reduced AdS2×S2AdS2×S2 theory is equivalent to the N=2N=2 2-d supersymmetric sine-Gordon model for which the exact quantum S-matrix is known. In the reduced AdS3×S3AdS3×S3 case the one-loop perturbative S-matrix, improved by a contribution of a local counterterm, satisfies the group factorisation property and the Yang–Baxter equation, and reveals the existence of a novel quantum-deformed 2-d supersymmetry which is not manifest in the action. The one-loop perturbative S-matrix of the reduced AdS5×S5AdS5×S5 theory has the group factorisation property but does not satisfy the Yang–Baxter equation suggesting some subtlety with the realisation of quantum integrability. As a possible resolution, we propose that the S-matrix of this theory may be identified with the quantum-deformed [psu(2|2)]2⋉R2[psu(2|2)]2⋉R2 symmetric R-matrix constructed in arXiv:1002.1097. We conjecture the exact all-order form of this S-matrix and discuss its possible relation to the perturbative S-matrix defined by the path integral. As in the AdS3×S3AdS3×S3 case the symmetry of the S-matrix may be interpreted as an extended quantum-deformed 2-d supersymmetry.