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===reviews===
[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0309246 TASI 2003 Lectures on AdS/CFT] 
by Juan M. Maldacena (hep-th/0309246, 46 pages) 
Maldacena's TASI lectures introduce the AdS/CFT correspondence and in particular the plane-wave limit.

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307101 Lectures on the Plane-Wave String/Gauge Theory Duality] 
by Jan Plefka (hep-th/0307101, 46 pages) 
Plefka's review of the plane-wave gauge/gravity duality concentrates on the gauge-theory side of
the correspondence and introduces an effective formalism that reduces the gauge-theory computations to quantum mechanics.
Plefka describes how string field theory calculations match gauge theory calculations. An elementary introduction to light-cone string field theory is included here as well.

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0401155 The Duality between IIB String Theory on PP-wave and N=4 SYM: a Status Report] 
by Rodolfo Russo, Alessandro Tanzin (hep-th/0401155, 35 pages, 5 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0311139 Spinning strings and AdS/CFT duality] 
by A.A. Tseytlin (hep-th/0311139, 54 pages) 
Tseytlin reviews how certain string states in Anti-de Sitter space (crossed with S^5) can be studied in detail using semiclassical methods, allowing detailed studies of the AdS/CFT duality to be carried out. These states have large angular momentum on the S^5 and their study is related to the above plane-wave limit.

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310119 The Plane-Wave/Super Yang-Mills Duality] 
by Darius Sadri, Mohammad M. Sheikh-Jabbari (hep-th/0310119, 91 pages, 7 figures)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310033 Light-Cone String Field Theory in a Plane Wave Background] 
by Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich (hep-th/0310033, 46 pages, 4 figures) 
Spradlin and Volovich review the plane-wave limit of AdS/CFT and describe how string field theory calculations of string interactions in 9+1 dimensional plane-wave spacetimes match interactions calculated using N=4 super Yang-Mills gauge theory in a 3+1 conformally flat spacetime. The paper includes [http://www.asiawriters.com/ freelance writing jobs] and
an elementary introduction to light-cone string field theory.

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307204 Quantum Mechanics, Random Matrices and BMN Gauge Theory] 
by C. Kristjansen (hep-th/0307204, 16 pages)

[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0307027 Strings in plane wave backgrounds] 
by A. Pankiewicz (hep-th/0307027, 85 pages) 
This fairly detailed introduction to the plane-wave limit of AdS/CFT is based on Pankiewicz's Ph.D. thesis.

===papers===
[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0202021 Strings in flat space and pp waves from ${\cal N}=4$ Super Yang Mills] 
by David Berenstein, Juan Maldacena, Horatiu Nastase (hep-th/0202021, 36 pages, 5 figures)

[http://xstructure.inr.ac.ru/x-bin/theme3.py?level=1&index1=311677 BMN limit on arxiv.org]

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