Exact gravitational plane waves and two-dimensional gravity

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2018.07.039MaRDI QIDQ1738478zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. G. Russo

Publication date 18 April 2019

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.08663

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: We discuss dynamical aspects of gravitational plane waves in Einstein theory with massless scalar fields. The general analytic solution describes colliding gravitational waves with constant polarization, which interact with scalar waves and, for generic initial data, produce a spacetime singularity at the focusing hypersurface. There is, in addition, an infinite family of regular solutions and an intriguing static geometry supported by scalar fields. Upon dimensional reduction, the theory can be viewed as an exactly solvable two-dimensional gravity model. This provides a new viewpoint on the gravitational dynamics. Finally, we comment on a simple mechanism by which short-distance corrections in the two-dimensional model can remove the singularity.

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