Eur. Phys. J. C 25, 327-332 (2002)
DOI: 10.1007/s10052-002-0986-y

Superstring on pp-wave orbifold from large- N quiver gauge theory

N. Kim¹, A. Pankiewicz¹, S.-J. Rey^{2, 3} and S. Theisen<sup>1

1</sup>  Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany
²  School of Physics and Center for Theoretical Physics, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
³  Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH, UK

(Received: 14 March 2002 / Published online: 5 July 2002 )

Abstract
We extend the proposal of Berenstein, Maldacena and Nastase to the Type IIB superstring propagating on a pp-wave over the orbifold. We show that first-quantized free string theory is described correctly by the large- N, fixed gauge coupling limit of [U(N)]^k quiver gauge theory. We propose a precise map between gauge theory operators and string states for both untwisted and twisted sectors. We also compute leading-order perturbative correction to the anomalous dimensions of these operators. The result is in agreement with the value deduced from the string energy spectrum, thus substantiating our proposed operator-state map.

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