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Jan Christoph Plefka

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Selected writings

On super-$AdS_4$ (super-near horizon geometry of black M2-branes as in AdS4/CFT3-duality):

• Bernard de Wit, Kasper Peeters, Jan Plefka, Alexander Sevrin, The M-theory two-brane in $AdS_4 \times S^7$ and $AdS_7 \times S^4$, Physics Letters B 443 1-4 (1998) 153-158 [doi:10.1016/S0370-2693(98)01340-9, inspire:474621]

On the BMN matrix model:

• Nakwoo Kim, Jan Plefka, On the Spectrum of PP-Wave Matrix Theory, Nucl. Phys. B643:31-48, 2002 (arXiv:hep-th/0207034)

On the BMN matrix model as a KK-compactification of D=4 N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on the 3-sphere:

• Nakwoo Kim, Thomas Klose, Jan Plefka, Plane-wave Matrix Theory from $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills on $\mathbb{R} \times S^3$, Nucl. Phys. B 671 (2003) 359-382 [arXiv:hep-th/0306054]

On the BMN limit of the AdS-CFT correspondence:

• Jan Plefka, Lectures on the Plane-Wave String/Gauge Theory Duality, Fortsch. Phys. 52 (2004) 264-301 [arXiv:hep-th/0307101, doi:10.1002/prop.200310121]

On higher curvature corrections in D=11 supergravity/M-theory via analysis of superparticle scattering amplitudes:

• Kasper Peeters, Jan Plefka, Steffen Stern, Higher-derivative gauge field terms in the M-theory action, JHEP 0508 (2005) 095 (arXiv:hep-th/0507178)

On scattering amplitudes in quantum field theory:

• Simon Badger, Johannes Henn, Jan Plefka, Simone Zoia: Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory, Lecture Notes in Physics 1021, Springer (2024) [arXiv:2306.05976, doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46987-9]

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