Plane waves: to infinity and beyond!

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/19/24/302MaRDI QIDQ4797210zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Donald Marolf, Simon F. Ross

Publication date 17 June 2003

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0208197

zbMATH Keywords

plane wavesbranesasymptotic boundarymaximally supersymmetric ten-dimensional wave

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30) Gravitational waves (83C35)

Abstract: We describe the asymptotic boundary of the general homogeneous plane wave spacetime, using a construction of the `points at infinity' from the causal structure of the spacetime as introduced by Geroch, Kronheimer and Penrose. We show that this construction agrees with the conformal boundary obtained by Berenstein and Nastase for the maximally supersymmetric ten-dimensional plane wave. We see in detail how the possibility to go beyond (or around) infinity arises from the structure of light cones. We also discuss the extension of the construction to time-dependent plane wave solutions, focusing on the examples obtained from the Penrose limit of Dp-branes.

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