Lectures on the plane-wave string/gauge theory duality

Fortschritte der Physik

Volumn 52, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 264-301

  Plefka, Jan Christoph ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Penrose limit and pp wave background; String field theory; String gauge theory duality; Super Yang Mills

Indexed keywords

EID: 3242766893     PISSN: 00158208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prop.200310121     Document Type: Review

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