Boundary driven turbulence on string worldsheet

Abstract

We study the origin of turbulence on the string worldsheet with boundaries laid in anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetime. While the classical motion of a single closed string in AdS is integrable, it has recently been recognized that weak turbulence arises in the case of an open string suspended from the AdS boundary. In the open string case, it is necessary to impose boundary conditions on the worldsheet boundaries. We classify which boundary conditions preserve integrability. Based on this classification, we anticipate that turbulence may occur on the string worldsheet if integrability is not guaranteed by the boundary conditions. Numerical investigations of the classical open-string dynamics support that turbulence occurs when the boundary conditions are not integrable.