Perturbative study of concentric 5-branes in plane-wave matrix model and development of mathematical formalism for wigner j-symbols

Expansion and computation of quantities around various (k x N) x (k x N) vacuua in BMN theory results in introduction of Matrix spherical harmonics and various traces of their products. In this thesis the formalism to deal with these harmonics is developed and a few bosonic diagrams that arise i...

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Main Author: Mohazab, Ali Reza
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32059