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Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry

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Published 22 April 2002 • Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Matthias Blau et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 L87 DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/19/10/101

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1 The Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy

2 Department of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, UK

3 Department of Physics, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

4 Department of Mathematics, King's College, London, UK

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  1. Received 26 February 2002
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Abstract

We show that the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave of IIB superstring and M-theories can be obtained as a Penrose limit of the supersymmetric AdS × S solutions. In addition, we find that in a certain large tension limit, the geometry seen by a brane probe in an AdS × S background is either Minkowski space or a maximally supersymmetric pp-wave.

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