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Hyeonjoon Shin

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Graviton and Spherical Graviton Potentials in Plane-Wave Matrix Model - overview and perspective -

We briefly review our works for graviton and spherical graviton potentials in a plane-wave matrix model. To compute them, it is necessary to devise a configuration of the graviton solutions, since the plane-wave matrix model includes mass terms and hence the gravitons are not free particles as in the BFSS matrix model but harmonic oscillators or rotating particles. The configuration we proposed consists of a rotating graviton and an elliptically rotating graviton. It is applied to the two-body interaction of spherical gravitons in the SO(6) symmetric space, and then to that of point-like gravitons in the SO(3) symmetric space. In both cases the leading term of the resulting potential is 1/r^7. This result strongly suggests that the potentials should be closely related to the light-front eleven-dimensional supergravity linearized around the pp-wave background.

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Point-Like Graviton Scattering in Plane-Wave Matrix Model

In a plane-wave matrix model we discuss a two-body scattering of gravitons in the SO(3) symmetric space. In this case the graviton solutions are point-like in contrast to the scattering in the SO(6) symmetric space where spherical membranes are interpreted as gravitons. We concentrate on a configuration in the 1-2 plane where a graviton rotates with a constant radius and the other one elliptically rotates. Then the one-loop effective action is computed by using the background field method. As the result, we obtain the 1/r^7-type interaction potential, which strongly suggests that the scattering in the matrix model would be closely related to that in the light-front eleven-dimensional supergravity.

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Thermodynamic Behavior of Fuzzy Membranes in PP-Wave Matrix Model

We discuss a two-body interaction of membrane fuzzy spheres in a pp-wave matrix model at finite temperature by considering a fuzzy sphere rotates with a constant radius r around the other one sitting at the origin in the SO(6) symmetric space. This system of two fuzzy spheres is supersymmetric at zero temperature and there is no interaction between them. Once the system is coupled to the heat bath, supersymmetries are completely broken and non-trivial interaction appears. We numerically show that the potential between fuzzy spheres is attractive and so the rotating fuzzy sphere tends to fall into the origin. The analytic formula of the free energy is also evaluated in the large N limit. It is well approximated by a polylog-function.

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Membrane Fuzzy Sphere Dynamics in Plane-Wave Matrix Model

In plane-wave matrix model, the membrane fuzzy sphere extended in the SO(3) symmetric space is allowed to have periodic motion on a sub-plane in the SO(6) symmetric space. We consider a background configuration composed of two such fuzzy spheres moving on the same sub-plane and the one-loop quantum corrections to it. The one-loop effective action describing the fuzzy sphere interaction is computed up to the sub-leading order in the limit that the mean distance $r$ between two fuzzy spheres is very large. We show that the leading order interaction is of the 1/r^7 type and thus the membrane fuzzy spheres interpreted as giant gravitons really behave as gravitons.

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Thermodynamics of Fuzzy Spheres in PP-wave Matrix Model

We discuss thermodynamics of fuzzy spheres in a matrix model on a pp-wave background. The exact free energy in the fuzzy sphere vacuum is computed in the μ-> \infty limit for an arbitrary matrix size N. The trivial vacuum dominates the fuzzy sphere vacuum at low temperature while the fuzzy sphere vacuum is more stable than the trivial vacuum at sufficiently high temperature. Our result supports that the fluctuations around the trivial vacuum would condense to form an irreducible fuzzy sphere above a certain temperature.

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One-Loop Flatness of Membrane Fuzzy Sphere Interaction in Plane-Wave Matrix Model

In the plane-wave matrix model, the background configuration of two membrane fuzzy spheres, one of which rotates around the other one in the SO(6) symmetric space, is allowed as a classical solution. We study the one-loop quantum corrections to this background in the path integral formulation. Firstly, we show that each fuzzy sphere is stable under the quantum correction. Secondly, the effective potential describing the interaction between fuzzy spheres is obtained as a function of r, which is the distance between two fuzzy spheres. It is shown that the effective potential is flat and hence the fuzzy spheres do not feel any force. The possibility on the existence of flat directions is discussed.

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Partition Function and Open/Closed String Duality in Type IIA String Theory on a PP-wave

We discuss partition functions of N=(4,4) type IIA string theory on the pp-wave background. This theory is shown to be modular invariant. The boundary states are constructed and possible D-brane instantons are classified. Then we calculate cylinder amplitudes in both closed and open string descriptions and check the open/closed string duality. Furthermore we consider general properties of modular invariant partition functions in the case of pp-waves.

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Type IIA Supergravity Excitations in Plane-Wave Background

We study the low-lying excitations of Type IIA superstring theory in a plane wave background with 24 supersymmetries. In the light-cone gauge, the superstring action has ${\cal N}=(4,4)$ supersymmetry and is exactly solvable, since it is quadratic in superstring coordinates. We obtain explicitly the spectrum of the Type IIA supergravity fluctuation modes in the plane wave background and give its correspondence with the spectrum of string states from the zero-mode sector of the light-cone superstring Hamiltonian.

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Covariant Description of D-branes in IIA Plane-Wave Background

We work out boundary conditions for the covariant open string in the type IIA plane wave background, which corresponds to the D-branes in the type IIA theory. We use the kappa symmetric string action and see what kind of boundary conditions should be imposed to retain kappa symmetry. We find half BPS as well as quarter BPS branes and the analysis agrees with the previous work in the light cone gauge if the result is available. Finally we find that D0-brane is non-supersymmetric.

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Solvable N=(4,4) Type IIA String Theory in Plane-Wave Background and D-Branes

We study various aspects of N=(4,4) type IIA GS superstring theory in the pp-wave background, which arises as the compactification of maximally supersymmetric eleven-dimensional pp-wave geometry along the spacelike isometry direction. We show the supersymmetry algebra of N=(4,4) worldsheet supersymmetry as well as non-linearly realized supersymmetry. We also give quantization of closed string and open string incorporating various boundary conditions. From the open string boundary conditions, we find configurations of D-branes which preserve half the supersymmetries. Among these we identify D4 brane configurations with longitudinal five brane configurations in matrix model on the eleven-dimensional pp-wave geometry.

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N=(4,4) Type IIA String Theory on PP-Wave Background

We construct IIA GS superstring action on the ten-dimensional pp-wave background, which arises as the compactification of eleven-dimensional pp-wave geometry along the isometry direction. The background geometry has 24 Killing spinors and among them, 16 components correspond to the non-linearly realized kinematical supersymmetry in the string action. The remaining eight components are linearly realized and shown to be independent of x^+ coordinate, which is identified with the world-sheet time coordinate of the string action in the light-cone gauge. The resultant dynamical N=(4,4) supersymmetry is investigated, which is shown to be consistent with the field contents of the action containing two free massive supermultiplets.

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Branes from Matrix Theory in PP-Wave Background

Based on the recently proposed action for Matrix theory describing the DLCQ M theory in the maximally supersymmetric pp-wave background, we obtain the supersymmetry algebra of supercharge density. Using supersymmetry transformation rules for fermions, we identify BPS states with the central charges in the supersymmetry algebra, which can be activated only in the large N limit. They preserve some fraction of supersymmetries and correspond to rotating transverse membranes and longitudinal five branes.

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Dynamical Aspects on Duality between SYM and NCOS from D2-F1 Bound State

It has been shown that (2+1)-dimensional N=8 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory with electric flux is related to (2+1)- dimensional noncommutative open string (NCOS) theory by `2-11' flip. This implies that the instanton process in SYM theory, which corresponds to D0-brane exchange (M-momentum transfer) between D2-branes, is dual to the KK momentum exchange in NCOS theory, which is perturbative process in nature. In order to confirm this, we obtain the effective action of probe M2-brane on the background of tilted M2-branes, which would correspond to the one-loop effective action of SYM theory with non-perturbative instanton corrections. Then we consider the dual process in NCOS theory, which is the scattering amplitude of the wound graviton off the D2-F1 bound state involving KK-momentum transfer in x^2-direction. Both of them give the same interaction terms. Remarkably they also have the same behavior on the nontrivial velocity dependence. All these strongly support the duality between those two theories with completely different nature.

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On Decoupling of Massless Modes in NCOS Theories

We revisit the decoupling phenomenon of massless modes in the noncommutative open string (NCOS) theories. We check the decoupling by explicit computation in (2+1) or higher dimensional NCOS theories and recapitulate the validity of the decoupling to all orders in perturbation theory.

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Supersymmetry of Green-Schwarz Superstring and Matrix String Theory

We study the dynamics of Green-Schwarz superstring on the gravitational wave background corresponding to the Matrix string theory and the supersymmetry transformation rules of the superstring. The dynamics is obtained in the light-cone formulation and is shown to agree with that derived from the Matrix string theory. The supersymmetry structure has the corrections due to the effect of the background and is identified with that of the low energy one-loop effective action of Matrix string theory in two superstring background in the weak string coupling limit.

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Non-perturbative membrane spin-orbit couplings in M/IIA theory

Membrane source-probe dynamics is investigated in the framework of the finite N-sector DLCQ M theory compactified on a transverse two-torus for an arbitrary size of the longitudinal dimension. The non-perturbative two fermion terms in the effective action of the matrix theory, the (2+1)-dimensional supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory, that are related to the four derivative F^4 terms by the supersymmetry transformation are obtained, including the one-loop term and full instanton corrections. On the supergravity side, we compute the classical probe action up to two fermion terms based on the classical supermembrane formulation in an arbitrary curved background geometry produced by source membranes satisfying the BPS condition; two fermion terms correspond to the spin-orbit couplings for membranes. We find precise agreement between two approaches when the background space-time is chosen to be that of the DLCQ M theory, which is asymptotically locally Anti-de Sitter.

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Supersymmetric completion of supersymmetric quantum mechanics

Via supersymmetry argument, we determine the effective action of the SU(2) supersymmetric Yang-Mills quantum mechanics up to two constants, which results from the full supersymmetric completion of the F^4 term. The effective action, consisting of zero, two, four, six and eight fermion terms, agrees with the known perturbative one-loop calculations from the type II string theory and the matrix theory. Our derivation thus demonstrates its non-renormalization properties, namely, the one-loop exactness of the aforementioned action and the absence of the non-perturbative corrections. We briefly discuss generalizations to other branes and the comparison to the DLCQ supergravity analysis. In particular, our results show that the stringent constraints from the supersymmetry are responsible for the agreement between the matrix theory and supergravity with sixteen supercharges.

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