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