string theory in this new background, we can complete the matching between the spectrum of anomalous dimensions of gauge theory operators in certain sectors of $\neqf$ SYM theory and the spectrum of the dual string theory states.

We show below in Section \[sec:stringrotspectra\] that all the pp-wave s achievable through the Penrose limit are connected by a time-dependent coordinate transformation. This proves that mathematically they are all equivalent. The same is not true from the physical point of view, since the transformation involves time. Thus what changes from a  to another is what we call time, and consequently what we call Hamiltonian. Therefore the physics is different when we consider the theory on different pp-wave backgrounds.

It is also interesting to notice which regimes of ${\mathcal{N}}=4$ SYM the different Penrose limits correspond to. We give these regimes for each of the three different limits below. To consider this, we record the following dictionary between strings on $\mbox{AdS}_5\times S^5$ and ${\mathcal{N}}=4$ SYM on ${\mathbb{R}}\times S^3$. We have $$\frac{R^4}{l_s^4} = 4 \pi^2 \lambda {\,, \ \ }g_s = \frac{\pi \lambda}{N}$$ where $R$ is the radius of $\mbox{AdS}_5$ and $S^5$, $g_s$ and $l_s$ are the string coupling and string length, respectively, and $\lambda 