Caustics for spherical waves

de Rham, Claudia; Motohashi, Hayato

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008

Title: Caustics for spherical waves

Journal Article · Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review D

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008· OSTI ID:1423957

de Rham, Claudia ^[1]; Motohashi, Hayato ^[2]

Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States); Imperial College, London (United Kingdom)
Univ. of Valencia (Spain); Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Kavli Inst. for Cosmological Physics (KICP)

We study the development of caustics in shift-symmetric scalar field theories by focusing on simple waves with an S O ( p ) -symmetry in an arbitrary number of space dimensions. We show that the pure Galileon, the DBI–Galileon, and the extreme-relativistic Galileon naturally emerge as the unique set of caustic-free theories, highlighting a link between the caustic-free condition for simple S O ( p ) -waves and the existence of either a global Galilean symmetry or a global (extreme-)relativistic Galilean symmetry.

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Research Organization:: Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0009946

OSTI ID:: 1423957

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1346094

Journal Information:: Physical Review D, Vol. 95, Issue 6; ISSN 2470-0010

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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