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Matrix string theory

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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 showed equivalent to a maximally supersymmetric two-dimensional gauge theory whose gauge group is U(N) with a large value of N.