Homogeneous plane waves

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

Matthias Blau, Martin O'Loughlin

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 theory; null singularities; geodesically complete metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

83E30: String and superstring theories in gravitational theory

83E05: Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle

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CLOSED BOSONIC STRING PARTITION FUNCTION IN TIME INDEPENDENT EXACT pp-WAVE BACKGROUND, The time-dependent supersymmetric configurations in M-theory and matrix models, Homogeneous pseudo-Riemannian structures of linear type, Effective potential in \(pp\)-wave geometry, Solvable models of strings in homogeneous plane-wave backgrounds, Homogeneous Lorentzian spaces whose null-geodesics are canonically homogeneous, Homogeneous Lorentzian spaces admitting a homogeneous structure of type \(\mathcal T_{1} \oplus \mathcal T_{3}\), Penrose limits of homogeneous spaces, The plane-wave/super Yang-Mills duality

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