LARGE-N AND THE DINE-RAJARAMAN PROBLEM

We compute the effective action for scattering of three well-separated extremal brane solutions, in lid supergravity, with zero p(-) transfe r and small transverse velocities. Using an interpretation of the conj ecture of Maldacena, following Hyun, this can be viewed as the large N limit of the Matrix theory description of three supergraviton scatter ing at leading order. The result is consistent with the perturbative s upergravity calculation. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights res erved.