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Homogeneous Conformal String Backgrounds

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-04-06 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present exact solutions characterised by Bianchi-type I,II,III,V,VI four-dimensional metric, space-independent dilaton, and vanishing torsion background, for the low energy string effective action with zero central charge deficit. We show that, in such a context, curvature singularities cannot be avoided, except for the trivial case of flat spacetime and constant dilaton. We also provide a further example of the failure of the standard prescription for connecting conformal string backgrounds through duality transformations associated to non-semisimple, non-Abelian isometry group.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9501055,
  title  = {Homogeneous Conformal String Backgrounds},
  author = {M. Gasperini and R. Ricci},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9501055},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

20 pages, latex, no figures, to appear in Class. Q. Grav