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From pp-Waves to Galilean Spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-06-06 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Differential Geometry

Abstract

We exhibit all spatially isotropic homogeneous Galilean spacetimes of dimension (n+1)4(n+1) \geq 4, including the novel torsional ones, as null reductions of homogeneous pp-wave spacetimes. We also show that the pp-waves are sourced by pure radiation fields and analyse their global properties.

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@article{arxiv.2208.07627,
  title  = {From pp-Waves to Galilean Spacetimes},
  author = {José Figueroa-O'Farrill and Ross Grassie and Stefan Prohazka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.07627},
  year   = {2023}
}
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