Plane fronted gravitational waves in Lovelock-Yang-Mills theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-11-11 v3
Abstract
We obtain plane fronted gravitational waves (PFGWs) in arbitrary dimension in Lovelock gravity, to any order in the Riemann tensor. We exhibit pure gravity as well as Lovelock-Yang-Mills PFGWs. Lovelock-Maxwell and waves arise as particular cases. The electrovac solutions trivially satisfy the Lovelock-Born-Infeld field equations. The peculiarities that arise in degenerate Lovelock theories are also analyzed.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0505094,
title = {Plane fronted gravitational waves in Lovelock-Yang-Mills theory},
author = {Reinaldo J. Gleiser and Gustavo Dotti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0505094},
year = {2009}
}
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11 pages