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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

R2 v1 2026-06-28T21:03:19.771Z