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Penrose Limits, PP-Waves and Deformed M2-branes
Motivated by the recent discussions of the Penrose limit of AdS_5\times S^5,
we examine a more general class of supersymmetric pp-wave solutions of the type
IIB theory, with a larger number of non-vanishing structures in the self-dual
5-form. One of the pp-wave solutions can be obtained as a Penrose limit of a
D3/D3 intersection. In addition to 16 standard supersymmetries these
backgrounds always allow for supernumerary supersymmetries. The latter are in
one-to-one correspondence with the linearly-realised world-sheet
supersymmetries of the corresponding exactly-solvable type IIB string action.
The pp-waves provide new examples where supersymmetries will survive in a
T-duality transformation on the x^+ coordinate. The T-dual solutions can be
lifted to give supersymmetric deformed M2-branes in D=11. The deformed M2-brane
is dual to a three-dimensional field theory whose renormalisation group flow
runs from the conformal fixed point in the infra-red regime to a non-conformal
theory as the energy increases. At a certain intermediate energy scale there is
a phase transition associated with a naked singularity of the M2-brane. In the
ultra-violet limit the theory is related by T-duality to an exactly-solvable
massive IIB string theory.Comment: Latex, 23 pages. Typographical errors corrected, and references adde
Intersecting D-branes in Type IIB Plane Wave Background
We study intersecting D-branes in a type IIB plane wave background using
Green-Schwarz worldsheet formulation. We consider all possible -branes
intersecting at angles in the plane wave background and identify their residual
supersymmetries. We find, in particular, that brane
intersections preserve no supersymmetry. We also present the explicit
worldsheet expressions of conserved supercharges and their supersymmetry
algebras.Comment: 32 pages, 2 tables; Corrected typos, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Orbifolds, Penrose Limits and Supersymmetry Enhancement
We consider supersymmetric PP-wave limits for different N=1 orbifold
geometries of the five sphere S^5 and the five dimensional Einstein manifold
T^{1,1}. As there are several interesting ways to take the Penrose limits, the
PP-wave geometry can be either maximal supersymmetric N=4 or half-maximal
supersymmetric N=2. We discuss in detail the cases AdS_5 x S^5/Z_3, AdS_5 x
S^5/(Z_m x Z_n) and AdS_5 x T^{1,1}/(\Z_m \times \Z_n) and we identify the
gauge invariant operators which correspond to stringy excitations for the
different limits.Comment: 22 pages, Latex,v2:additional comments in section 2,references
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