Homogeneous plane waves

DOI10.1016/S0550-3213(03)00055-5zbMath1010.83058arXivhep-th/0212135OpenAlexW2157483854MaRDI QIDQ1860895

Martin O'Loughlin, Matthias Blau

Publication date: 4 March 2003

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0212135

zbMATH Keywords

string theorynull singularitiesgeodesically complete metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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