Notes on fast moving strings

Abstract

We review the recent work on the mechanics of fast moving strings in anti-de Sitter space times a sphere and discuss the role of conserved charges. An interesting relation between the local conserved charges of rigid solutions was found in the earlier work. We propose a generalization of this relation for arbitrary solutions, not necessarily rigid. We conjecture that an infinite combination of local conserved charges is an action variable generating periodic trajectories in the classical string phase space. It corresponds to the length of the operator on the field theory side.