2007/11/30 by Maximilian Kreuzer, M. Kreuzer, Christoph Mayrhofer +2
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Gauge theory #Limit (mathematics) #M-theory #Magnon #Mathematical analysis #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Philosophy #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Space (punctuation) #String (physics) #String theory #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.77.066016
published as Phys.Rev.D77:066016,2008 · 1+23 pages, introduction improved and clarifying comments added, references added, results remain unchanged
arxiv created 2008/01/27 · openalex publication_date 2008/03/24 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Recently, Maldacena and Swanson suggested a new limit of string theory on the AdS5\ifmmode×\else\texttimes\fiS5 background, the so-called near flat space limit. The resulting reduced theory interpolates between the pp-wave limit and giant magnon-type string solutions. It was shown that the reduced model possesses many features of the original theory. On the other hand, theories with less supersymmetry are of great importance for the string/gauge theory correspondence. In this paper we study the near flat limit reduction of string theory on the Maldacena-Nunez background, which is dual to N=1 Yang-Mills theory. The reduced model interpolates between the pp-wave limit and a certain magnon-type subsector of the theory. The similarity of the structures of the reduced model obtained here and that by Maldacena and Swanson indicates the possibility of existence of integrable subsectors of strings on the Maldacena-Nunez background.