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

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/09/105zbMATH Open1245.83018arXiv0806.3057OpenAlexW2070823960MaRDI QIDQ445541FDOQ445541

Authors: Oleg Evnin, Timothy Nguyen 

Publication date: 26 August 2012

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

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).

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

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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)

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