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Plane fronted gravitational waves in Lovelock-Yang-Mills theory

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Facultad de Matematica, Astronomia y Fisica, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Ciudad Universitaria (5000) Cordoba (Argentina)
We obtain plane fronted gravitational waves (PFGWs) in arbitrary dimension in Lovelock gravity, to any order in the Riemann tensor. We exhibit pure gravity as well as Lovelock-Yang-Mills PFGWs. Lovelock-Maxwell and pp waves arise as particular cases. The electrovac solutions trivially satisfy the Lovelock-Born-Infeld field equations. The peculiarities that arise in degenerate Lovelock theories are also analyzed.
OSTI ID:
20709573
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 12 Vol. 71; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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