Continuum limit(s) of BMN matrix model: Where is the (nonabelian) gauge group?

Abstract

We discuss the continuum limits of Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase matrix model. They give rise to Poisson bracket gauge field theories on the ordinary two sphere or on a set of two spheres with a gauge groups U(n) depending on the degeneracy of the classical solution about which the model is considered. We show that these models fail to be equivalent among each other in the continuum limit.