String Theory Seminar  

28/09/2009, 16:30 — 17:30 — Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Michael Abbott, Brown University/TIFR

Giant Magnons for SYM and ABJM theory

This talk is about recent and on-going work on classical string solutions relevant for the AdS/CFT correspondence. The focus is on properties which change when translating from the old N=4 super-Yang-Mills case (with strings on ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{5}x{S}^5$) to the recent case involving the super-Chern-Simons-matter theory of ABJM and strings on ${\mathrm{AdS}}_{4}x{\mathrm{CP}}^3$. The two cases have many similar features, but always with extra complications in the new one.