Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics

By M. Blau, J. Figueroa-O’Farrill, Georgios Papadopoulos. 2002

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We investigate the Penrose limits of classical string and M-theory backgrounds. We prove that the number of (super)symmetries of a supergravity background never decreases in the limit. We classify all the possible Penrose limits of AdS ? S spacetimes and of supergravity brane solutions. We also present the Penrose limits of various other solutions: intersecting branes, supersymmetric black holes and strings in diverse dimensions, and cosmological models. We explore the Penrose limit of an isometrically embedded spacetime and find a generalization to spaces with more than one time. Finally, we show that the Penrose limit is a large tension limit for all branes including those with fields of Born?Infeld type.

Subfields: Mathematical Physics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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On Penrose limits and gauge Theories (2002, methodology): “This metric can be brought to Brinkman coordinates following the prescription of [3].”
M-theory pp-waves, Penrose limits and supernumerary supersymmetries (2002, background): “By contrast, in the first choice in Table 1 the 8 supernumerary Killing spinors depend on the x+ coordinate.”
PP wave limit and enhanced supersymmetry in gauge theories (2002, background): “such states is the Penrose limit of AdS5 × S 5 , which is [5, 6] the pp wave”
Superstring interactions in a pp -wave background (2002, background): “A number of recent papers have considered related issues, including obtaining pp-wave string theory from field theories with N = 1 supersymmetry [17-19], orbifolded pp-waves [20-23], holography in the pp-wave background [24-26], and other aspects of Penrose limits and strings in plane wave backgroun”
Branes in AdS and pp-wave spacetimes (2002, methodology): “We systematically analyze D-brane embeddings in the pp-wave background along with their supersymmetry.”
Solvable model of strings in a time-dependent plane-wave background (2002, background): “As explained in [24], taking Penrose limit along radial direction of the FRW universe gives a plane wave metric of the type (1.”
Homogeneous plane waves (2002, background): “ory in this RR background is also exactly solvable [11], has led to renewed interest in this subject, in particular with the realisation that the BFHP solution arises [12] as the Penrose-Gueven limit [13, 14, 15] of AdS5 × S5, and that this gives rise to a novel explicit form of the AdS/CFT correspo”