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No horizons in pp-waves

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We argue that pp-wave backgrounds can not admit event horizons. We also comment on pp-wave generalizations which would admit horizons and show that there exists a black string solution which asymptotes to a five dimensional plane wave background.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-th/0210234,
  title  = {No horizons in pp-waves},
  author = {Veronika E Hubeny and Mukund Rangamani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0210234},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

19 pages, 1 figure, uses harvmac and epsf