Treffer: The duality between IIB string theory on PP-wave and N = 4 SYM: A status report

Title:
The duality between IIB string theory on PP-wave and N = 4 SYM: A status report
Source:
Papers from the RTN Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions, Copenhagen, 15-20 September 2003Classical and quantum gravity (Print). 21(10):S1265-S1295
Publisher Information:
Bristol: Institute of Physics, 2004.
Publication Year:
2004
Physical Description:
print, 91 ref
Original Material:
INIST-CNRS
Document Type:
Konferenz Conference Paper
File Description:
text
Language:
English
Author Affiliations:
CERN, Geneva 23, Switzerland
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Université de Paris VI, 4 Place Jussieu, case 126, 75252 Paris, France
ISSN:
0264-9381
Rights:
Copyright 2004 INIST-CNRS
CC BY 4.0
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Notes:
Physics of elementary particles and fields
Accession Number:
edscal.15782960
Database:
PASCAL Archive

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The aim of this report is to give an overview of the duality between type IIB string theory on the maximally supersymmetric PP-wave and the BMN sector of the N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory. The general features of the string and the field theory descriptions are reviewed, but the main focus of this report is on the comparison between the two sides of the duality. In particular, it is first explained how free IIB strings emerge on the gauge theory side and then the generalizations of this relation to the full interacting theory are considered. A 'historical' approach is taken and various proposals presented in the literature are described.