New Penrose limits and AdS/CFT

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We find a new Penrose limit of AdS 5 × S 5 giving the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background with two explicit space-like isometries. This is an important missing piece in studying the AdS/CFT correspondence in certain subsectors. In particular whereas the Penrose limit giving one space-like isometry is useful for the SU(2) sector of N = 4 SYM, this new Penrose limit is instead useful for studying the SU(2|3) and SU(1, 2|3) sectors. In addition to the new Penrose limit of AdS 5 × S 5 we also find a new Penrose limit of AdS4 × ℂP 3.

Original languageEnglish
Article number034
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Volume2010
Issue number6
ISSN1126-6708
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Aug 2010

    Research areas

  • AdS-CFT correspondence, Penrose limit and pp-wave background, Superstrings and heterotic strings

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