A next-to-leading Luescher formula

Abstract

We propose a next-to-leading Luescher-like formula for the finite-size corrections of the excited states energies in integrable theories. We conjecture the expressions of the corrections for both the energy and the particles' rapidities by interpreting the excited states as momenta-dependent defects. We check the resulting formulas in some simple relativistic model and conjecture those for the AdS5/CFT4 case.