Master thesis defense by Filip Ristovski

Title: ABJM and the Associated Holographic Duality

Abstract: The thesis presents a wide scope of topics all falling under the subject of AdS/CFT. Specifically, the focus will be on the AdS4/CFT3 case dubbed ABJM, where a review will be done mainly regarding the general aspect of the AdS/CFT correspondence, ABJM and tools to motivate it such as Superstrings, Supergravity and M-theory. Next, the spin-chain and Penrose limit framework is established as it will be important for calculations and interpretations. In the last part, the focus will lie on Spin Matrix theory, and how to use it to study decoupling limits in the context of Partition functions on R ×S2 and BPS-backgrounds for AdS4 ×CP3. We find new backgrounds that exhibit a peculiar case compared to what is already known