New solvable sigma models in plane-parallel wave background

DOI10.1142/S0217751X14500092zbMATH Open1284.83155arXiv1308.0153OpenAlexW3104892840MaRDI QIDQ5407891FDOQ5407891

Authors: Ladislav Hlavatý, Ivo Petr 

Publication date: 8 April 2014

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We explicitly solve the classical equations of motion for strings in backgrounds obtained as non-abelian T-duals of a homogeneous isotropic plane-parallel wave. To construct the dual backgrounds, semi-abelian Drinfeld doubles are used which contain the isometry group of the homogeneous plane wave metric. The dual solutions are then found by the Poisson-Lie transformation of the explicit solution of the original homogeneous plane wave background. Investigating their Killing vectors, we have found that the dual backgrounds can be transformed to the form of more general plane-parallel waves.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0153

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zbMATH Keywords

sigma modelsstring dualityPenrose limit and \(pp\)-wave background

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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