Matrix string theory on pp-waves
Abstract
After a brief review on matrix string theory on flat backgrounds, we formulate matrix string models on different pp-wave backgrounds. This will be done both in the cases of constant and variable RR background flux for certain exact string geometries. We exhibit the non-perturbative representation of string interaction and show how the eigenvalue tunnelling drives the WKB expansion to give the usual perturbative string interaction also in supersymmetric pp-wave background cases.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- June 2003
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:hep-th/0210212
- Bibcode:
- 2003CQGra..20S.433B
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory
- E-Print:
- 1+8 pages, Proceedings of the Leuven RTN-workshop September 2002