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Type IIB String Backgrounds on Parallelizable PP-Waves and Conformal Liouville Theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

The scope of this work concerns the adaptation of the parallelizability pp-wave (Ppp-wave) process to D=10 type IIB string backgrounds in the presence of the non-trivial anti-self dual R-R 5-form \QTRcalF\QTR{cal}{F}. This is important in the sense that it gives rise to some unsuspected properties. In fact, exact solutions of type IIB string backgrounds on Ppp-waves are discussed. For the uu-dependence of the dilaton field Φ\Phi , we establish explicitly a correspondence between type IIB supergravity equations of motion and 2d-conformal Liouville field theory. We show also that the corresponding conserved conformal current T(Φ)T(\Phi) coincides exactly with the trace of the symmetric matrix μij\mu_{ij} appearing in the quadratic front factor F=μijxixjF=\mu _{ij}x^{i}x^{j} of the Ppp-wave. Furthermore, we consider the transverse space dependence of the dilaton Φ\Phi and show that the supergravity equations are easily solved for the linear realization of the dilaton field. Other remarkable properties related to this case are also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0308187,
  title  = {Type IIB String Backgrounds on Parallelizable PP-Waves and Conformal Liouville Theory},
  author = {M. Hssaini and M. B. Sedra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0308187},
  year   = {2007}
}

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