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An overview of branes in the plane wave background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We give an overview of D-branes in the maximally supersymmetric plane wave background of IIB supergravity. We start by reviewing the results of the probe analysis. We then present the open string analysis and show how certain spacetime symmetries are restored using worldsheet symmetries. We discuss the construction of these branes as boundary states and summarize what is known about the dual gauge theory description.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0301221,
  title  = {An overview of branes in the plane wave background},
  author = {Kostas Skenderis and Marika Taylor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0301221},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, to appear in the proceedings of the Workshop on the Quantum Structure of Spacetime and the Geometric Nature of Fundamental Interactions held in Leuven from Sept 13th to Sept 19th, 2002