Fermi coordinates and Penrose limits

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/11/020zbMATH Open1105.83005arXivhep-th/0603109OpenAlexW3101603266MaRDI QIDQ5481096FDOQ5481096

Authors: Matthias Blau, Denis Frank, Sebastian Weiß 

Publication date: 7 August 2006

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a formulation of the Penrose plane wave limit in terms of null Fermi coordinates. This provides a physically intuitive (Fermi coordinates are direct measures of geodesic distance in space-time) and manifestly covariant description of the expansion around the plane wave metric in terms of components of the curvature tensor of the original metric, and generalises the covariant description of the lowest order Penrose limit metric itself, obtained in hep-th/0312029. We describe in some detail the construction of null Fermi coordinates and the corresponding expansion of the metric, and then study various aspects of the higher order corrections to the Penrose limit. In particular, we observe that in general the first-order corrected metric is such that it admits a light-cone gauge description in string theory. We also establish a formal analogue of the Weyl tensor peeling theorem for the Penrose limit expansion in any dimension, and we give a simple derivation of the leading (quadratic) corrections to the Penrose limit of AdS_5 x S^5.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0603109

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zbMATH Keywords

Penrose limitshigher order correctionsnull Fermi coordinates

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

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