Strings in plane wave backgrounds

Abstract

I review aspects of string theory on plane wave backgrounds emphasising the connection to gauge theory given by the BMN correspondence. Topics covered include the Penrose limit and its role in deriving the BMN duality from AdS/CFT, light-cone string field theory in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave and extensions of the correspondence to less supersymmetric backgrounds.

85 pages, based on PhD thesis, Humboldt University, Berlin; v2: added references

References in corpus (44)

• The Bethe-Ansatz for N=4 Super Yang-Mills
• The Dilatation Operator of Conformal N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory
• Operator Mixing and the BMN Correspondence
• On lightcone string field theory from Super Yang-Mills and holography
• Solvable model of strings in a time-dependent plane-wave background
• BMN Gauge Theory as a Quantum Mechanical System
• Plane-wave Matrix Theory from N=4 Super Yang-Mills on RxS^3
• PP-Wave Light-Cone Superstring Field Theory
• BMN Operators and Superconformal Symmetry
• Open strings in the plane wave background I: Quantization and symmetries
• Explicit Formulas for Neumann Coefficients in the Plane-Wave Geometry
• The D-instanton and other supersymmetric D-branes in IIB plane-wave string theory
• A Soluble String Theory of Hadrons
• The 3-string vertex and the AdS/CFT duality in the PP-wave limit
• Open strings in the plane wave background II: Superalgebras and Spectra
• On light-cone SFT contact terms in a plane wave
• SYM Description of PP-wave String Interactions: Singlet Sector and Arbitrary Impurities
• Gauge theory description of compactified pp-waves
• BMN operators and string field theory
• Derivation of String Field Theory from the Large N BMN Limit
• Conformal Dimensions of Two-Derivative BMN Operators
• An alternative formulation of light-cone string field theory on the plane wave
• Correspondence between the 3-point BMN correlators and the 3-string vertex on the pp-wave
• Causal structures of pp-waves
• D-branes in PP-Waves and Massive Theories on Worldsheet with Boundary
• Note on Plane Wave Quantum Mechanics
• Open+Closed String Field Theory From Gauge Fields
• BMN operators with three scalar impurites and the vertex--correlator duality in pp-wave
• Supersymmetric D3 brane and N=4 SYM actions in plane wave backgrounds
• Strong Evidence In Favor OF The Existence Of S-Matrix For Strings In Plane Waves
• Worldvolume supersymmetries for branes in plane waves
• D-branes in PP-wave light cone string field theory
• A Note on Cubic Interactions in PP-Wave Light Cone String Field Theory
• N=2 Sigma Models for Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds
• String bits without doubling
• What is Holography in the Plane-Wave Limit of AdS/CFT Correspondence ?
• On integrable models from pp-wave string backgrounds
• An overview of branes in the plane wave background
• AdS Holography in the Penrose Limit
• Remarks on type IIB pp waves with Ramond-Ramond fluxes and massive two dimensional nonlinear sigma models
• Chiral primary cubic interactions from pp-wave supergravity
• Conformal boundary and geodesics for $Ad{S}_5\times S^5$ and the plane wave: Their approach in the Penrose limit
• D-branes in a plane-wave background
• PP-wave Green-Schwarz superstring, polygon divergent structure and conformal field theory

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• Long-Range PSU(2,2|4) Bethe Ansaetze for Gauge Theory and Strings
• The Dilatation Operator of N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory and Integrability
• Planar N=4 gauge theory and the Inozemtsev long range spin chain
• Spinning strings and integrable spin chains in the AdS/CFT correspondence
• Algebraic Curve for the SO(6) sector of AdS/CFT
• The Plane-Wave/Super Yang-Mills Duality
• Lectures on the Plane-Wave String/Gauge Theory Duality
• Resolving the Holography in the Plane-Wave Limit of AdS/CFT Correspondence
• Open Spin Chain and Open Spinning String
• Review of AdS/CFT Integrability, Chapter IV.1: Aspects of Non-Planarity
• On the plane-wave cubic vertex
• Spin bit models from non-planar N=4 SYM
• D-branes and BCFT in Hpp-wave backgrounds
• N=2 Super Yang-Mills and the XXZ spin chain
• The Duality between IIB String Theory on PP-wave and N=4 SYM: a Status Report
• Operator mixing and three-point functions in N=4 SYM
• Light-Cone String Field Theory in a Plane Wave Background
• Holographic cubic vertex in the pp-wave
• Non-perturbative contributions to the plane-wave string mass matrix
• New aspects of the BMN correspondence beyond the planar limit
• On the Uniqueness of Plane-wave String Field Theory
• On semiclassical calculation of three-point functions in AdS_5 \times T^(1,1)
• Decay widths of three-impurity states in the BMN correspondence
• Comments on Supersymmetry Algebra and Contact Term in Matrix String Theory
• Non-perturbative effects in the BMN limit of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
• Boundary fermions and the plane wave
• Spacetimes with all Penrose limits diagonalisable
• The Three-String Vertex for a Plane-Wave Background
• Non-BPS D-Branes in Light-Cone Green-Schwarz Formalism
• Strings on Plane Waves and AdS x S
• Loop Equation in D=4, N=4 SYM and String Field Equation on AdS_5 \times S^5
• Branes in the plane wave background with gauge field condensates
• Strings and branes in plane waves
• Aspects of Supersymmetric Gauge Theory and String Theory
• Turbulent aspects of BMN membrane dynamics