Matrix string theory

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In physics, matrix string theory is the first known set of equations that describe superstring theory in a non-perturbatively complete and consistent framework. Type IIA string theory can be shown equivalent to a maximally supersymmetric two-dimensional gauge theory, the gauge group of which is U(N) for a large value of N. Matrix Theory is now understood to be a special case of the celebrated (subsequently discovered) AdS/CFT correspondence.

It was developed by Luboš Motl and later independently in a more complete paper by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Erik Verlinde, and Herman Verlinde.

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• T. Banks, W. Fischler, S.H. Shenker and L. Susskind, "M Theory As A Matrix Model: A Conjecture". Phys. Rev. D55 (1997). arXiv:hep-th/9610043.
• W. Taylor, "M(atrix) Theory: Matrix Quantum Mechanics as a Fundamental Theory". arXiv:hep-th/0101126.
• Matrix theory on arxiv.org