Plane-parallel waves as duals of the flat background
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-10-31 v2
Abstract
We give a classification of non-Abelian T-duals of the flat metric in D=4 dimensions with respect to the four-dimensional continuous subgroups of the Poincare group. After dualizing the flat background, we identify majority of dual models as conformal sigma models in plane-parallel wave backgrounds, most of them having torsion. We give their form in Brinkmann coordinates. We find, besides the plane-parallel waves, several diagonalizable curved metrics with nontrivial scalar curvature and torsion. Using the non-Abelian T-duality, we find general solution of the classical field equations for all the sigma models in terms of d'Alembert solutions of the wave equation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.0971,
title = {Plane-parallel waves as duals of the flat background},
author = {Ladislav Hlavaty and Ivo Petr},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0971},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
40 pages, results are compared with some added references