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Strings in flat space and pp waves from Super Yang Mills

arXiv:hep-th/0202021 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2002/04/013

Abstract

We explain how the string spectrum in flat space and pp-waves arises from the large limit, at fixed , of U(N) super Yang Mills. We reproduce the spectrum by summing a subset of the planar Feynman diagrams. We give a heuristic argument for why we can neglect other diagrams. We also discuss some other aspects of pp-waves and we present a matrix model associated to the DLCQ description of the maximally supersymmetric eleven dimensional pp-waves.

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