We review the holographic correspondence between field theories and string/M theory,
focusing on the relation between compactifications of string/M theory on Anti-de Sitter …

We explain how the string spectrum in flat space and pp-waves arises from the large-N limit,
at fixed g 2 YM, of U (N) Script N= 4 super Yang Mills. We reproduce the spectrum by …

We review a geometrical approach to the description of the dynamics of superparticles,
superstrings and, in general, of super-p-branes, Dirichlet branes and the M5-brane, which is …

A bstract We present a quantum M2 brane computation of the instanton prefactor in the
leading non-perturbative contribution to the ABJM 3-sphere free energy at large N and fixed …

The Wilson loop operator in the U (N) k× U (N)-k Aharony-Bergman-Jafferis-Maldacena
theory at large N and fixed level k has a dual description in terms of a wrapped M2-brane in …

We construct the covariant κ-symmetric superstring action for type IIB superstring on plane
wave space supported by Ramond–Ramond background. The action is defined as a 2d …

The superconformal index Z of the 6d (2, 0) theory on S 5× S 1 (which is related to the
localization partition function of 5d SYM on S 5) should be captured at large N by the …

According to the recent proposal by Aharony, Bergman, Jafferis and Maldacena the Script
N= 6 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theory in three dimensions has a't Hooft limit whose …

A bstract Surface operators in the 6d (2, 0) theory at large N have a holographic description
in terms of M2 branes probing the AdS 7× S 4 M-theory background. The most symmetric …

In this paper, we study the matrix model proposed by Berenstein, Maldacena, and Nastase
to describe M-theory on the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave. We show that the model …