Plane-parallel waves as duals of the flat background

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/32/3/035005MaRDI QIDQ5179080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ladislav Hlavatý, Ivo Petr

Publication date 19 March 2015

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0971

zbMATH Keywords

Penrose limit and pp-wave backgroundsigma modelsstring duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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.

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