The BMN limit
Reviews
Lectures on the Plane-Wave String/Gauge Theory Duality
by Jan Plefka (hep-th/0307101, 46 pages)
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)
Spinning strings and AdS/CFT duality
by A.A. Tseytlin (hep-th/0311139, 54 pages)
The Plane-Wave/Super Yang-Mills Duality
by Darius Sadri, Mohammad M. Sheikh-Jabbari (hep-th/0310119, 91 pages, 7 figures)
Light-Cone String Field Theory in a Plane Wave Background
by Marcus Spradlin, Anastasia Volovich (hep-th/0310033, 46 pages, 4 figures)
Strings in plane wave backgrounds
by A. Pankiewicz (hep-th/0307027, 85 pages)
Papers
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)