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Colliding Plane Wave Solutions in String theory Revisited

High Energy Physics - Theory 2008-11-26 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We construct the colliding plane wave solutions in the higher-dimensional gravity theory with fluxes and dilaton, with a more general ansatz on the metric. We consider two classes of solutions to the equations of motions and after imposing the junction conditions we find that they are all physically acceptable. In particular, we manage to obtain the higher-dimensional Bell-Szekeres solutions in the Maxwell-Einstein gravity theory, and the flux-CPW solutions in the eleven-dimensional supergravity theory. All the solutions have been shown to develop the late time curvature singularity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0409023,
  title  = {Colliding Plane Wave Solutions in String theory Revisited},
  author = {Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0409023},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

17 pages, Latex; references added; typos corrected, a few arguments improved