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Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry

Matthias Blau, Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill, Christopher Hull, George Papadopoulos

hep-tharXiv:hep-th/0201081

Abstract

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

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