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In a previous paper, we proposed a probability interpretation for higher genus amplitudes of BMN (Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase) strings in a pp-wave background with infinite negative curvature. This provides a natural definition of the entropy of a BMN string as the Shannon entropy of its corresponding probability distribution. We prove a universal upper bound that the entropy grows at most logarithmically in the strong string coupling limit. We also study the entropy by numerical methods and discuss some interesting salient features. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a previous paper we proposed a factorization principle for the correlation functions of Berenstein-Maldacena-Nastase (BMN) operators in free N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. These correlators are conjectured to described physical string amplitudes in an infinitely curved Ramond-Ramond pp-wave background. There was a puzzle that the factorization seems to break down for the S channel in the 2 2 scattering process. Here we resolve this puzzle by including some diagrams missed in the previous paper. We also observe some interesting relations which further support the interpretation of higher genus correlators as physical string loop amplitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]