On discrete features of the wave equation in singular pp-wave backgrounds

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/105zbMATH Open1245.83018OpenAlexW2070823960MaRDI QIDQ445541FDOQ445541

Authors Oleg Evnin, Timothy Nguyen

Publication date 26 August 2012

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0806.3057

zbMATH Keywords

singular pp-wave backgrounds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We analyze the wave equation in families of pp-wave geometries developing strong localized scale-invariant singularities in certain limits. For both cases of well-localized pp-waves and the so-called null-cosmologies, we observe an intriguing discrete dependence of the existence of a singular limit on the normalization of the pp-wave profile. We also find restrictive matching conditions relating the geometries before and after the singularity (if a singular limit for the solutions of the wave equation with initial conditions specified away from the near-singular region is assumed to exist).

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