Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry
High Energy Physics - Theory
2010-04-06 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Differential Geometry
Abstract
We show that the maximally supersymmetric pp-waves of IIB superstring and M-theories can be obtained as a Penrose limit of the supersymmetric AdS x S solutions. In addition we find that in a certain large tension limit, the geometry seen by a brane probe in an AdS x S background is either Minkowski space or a maximally supersymmetric pp-wave.
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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0201081,
title = {Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry},
author = {Matthias Blau and Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill and Christopher Hull and George Papadopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0201081},
year = {2010}
}
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12 pages, v2: references added