Asymptotically plane wave spacetimes and their actions

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2008/04/084zbMATH Open1246.83185arXiv0801.4412OpenAlexW3099191728MaRDI QIDQ446582FDOQ446582

Authors: Julian Le Witt, Simon F. Ross 

Publication date: 8 September 2012

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

Abstract: We propose a definition of asymptotically plane wave spacetimes in vacuum gravity in terms of the asymptotic falloff of the metric, and discuss the relation to previously constructed exact solutions. We construct a well-behaved action principle for such spacetimes, using the formalism developed by Mann and Marolf. We show that this action is finite on-shell and that the variational principle is well-defined for solutions of vacuum gravity satisfying our asymptotically plane wave falloff conditions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4412

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zbMATH Keywords

asymptotically plane wave spacetimes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

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