Juan Maldacena

Strings in flat space and pp waves from N = 4 Super Yang Mills

We explain how the string spectrum in flat space and pp‐waves arises from the large N limit, at fixed gYM2, of U(N) N = 4 super Yang Mills. We reproduce the spectrum by summing a subset of the planar Feynman diagrams. We give a heuristic argument for why we can neglect other diagrams.

Wilson loops in large N field theories

We propose a method to calculate the expectation values of an operator similar to the Wilson loop in the large

Non-gaussian features of primordial fluctuations in single field inflationary models

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Strings in flat space and pp waves from Script N = 4 Super Yang Mills

limit of field theories. We consider

Towards Inflation in String Theory

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Bubbling AdS space and 1/2 BPS geometries

(3+1)

Eternal black holes in anti-de Sitter

-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The prescription involves calculating the area of a fundamental string world sheet in certain supergravity backgrounds. We also consider the case of coincident

Towards the large N limit of pure N=1 superYang-Mills

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AdS3 black holes and a stringy exclusion principle

-theory five-branes where one is led to calculating the area of