nLab David Berenstein

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Selected writings

On the NSR superstring (spinning string) in RR-field backgrounds:

• David Berenstein, Robert Leigh, Superstring Perturbation Theory and Ramond-Ramond Backgrounds, Phys. Rev. D 60 106002 (1999) [arXiv:hep-th/9904104]

On Penrose limit of anti de Sitter spacetimes to pp-wave spacetimes, single trace operators in the AdS/CFT correspondence, and introducing the BMN matrix model:

• David Berenstein, Juan Maldacena, Horatiu Nastase, Section 2 of: Strings in flat space and pp waves from $\mathcal{N} = 4$ Super Yang Mills, JHEP 0204 (2002) 013 (arXiv:hep-th/0202021)

On flat space holography:

• David Berenstein, A toy model for the AdS/CFT correspondence, JHEP 0407 (2004) 018 (arXiv:hep-th/0403110)

On thermodynamics of the BMN matrix model:

• Curtis T. Asplund, David Berenstein, Diego Trancanelli, Evidence for fast thermalization in the plane-wave matrix model, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 171602 (2011) (arXiv:1104.5469)

M-theory on ALE spaces:

• David Berenstein, Richard Corrado, Jacques Distler, Aspects of ALE matrix models and twisted matrix strings, Phys. Rev. D 58, 026005 (1998) (arXiv:hep-th/9712049)

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