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Ricci Flows and Solitonic pp--Waves

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-11-11 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We find exact solutions describing Ricci flows of four dimensional pp-waves nonlinearly deformed by two/three dimensional solitons. Such solutions are parametrized by five dimensional metrics with generic off-diagonal terms and connections with nontrivial torsion which can be related, for instance, to antisymmetric tensor sources in string gravity. There are defined nontrivial limits to four dimensional configurations and the Einstein gravity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0602063,
  title  = {Ricci Flows and Solitonic pp--Waves},
  author = {Sergiu I. Vacaru},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0602063},
  year   = {2009}
}

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The variant accepted to IJMPA, with new affiliation, 16 pages

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