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Plane Waves and Vacuum Interpolation

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

A 1/2-BPS family of time dependent plane wave spacetimes which give rise to exactly solvable string backgrounds is presented. In particular a solution which interpolates between Minkowski spacetime and the maximally supersymmetric homogeneous plane wave along a timelike direction is analyzed. We work in d=4, N=2 supergravity, but the results can be easily extended to d=10,11. The conformal boundary of a particular class of solutions is studied.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0212074,
  title  = {Plane Waves and Vacuum Interpolation},
  author = {Guillermo A. Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0212074},
  year   = {2007}
}

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13 pages, 3 figures