Self-dual pp-wave solutions in chiral higher-spin gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2025-12-02 v2
Abstract
We show that chiral higher-spin gravity with a vanishing cosmological constant admits a class of exact self-dual pp-wave solutions derived from harmonic scalar functions and two principal spinors. These solutions satisfy both the linear and non-linear equations of motion, as they annihilate all higher-order vertices, leading to the equations of motion for free fields on a self-dual background sourced by a positive-helicity spin-2 field. Our method employs a simple light-cone ansatz for positive-helicity chiral higher-spin fields, along with a modified Kerr-Schild ansatz adapted for the self-dual gravity framework.
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@article{arxiv.2501.06445,
title = {Self-dual pp-wave solutions in chiral higher-spin gravity},
author = {Tung Tran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.06445},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
v2: small corrections