New class of exact solutions in string theory

Journal Article · Wed Mar 15 00:00:00 EST 1995 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.51.2896· OSTI ID:6405096

Horowitz, G T ^[1]; Tseytlin, A A ^[2]

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1. Physics Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106 (United States)
2. Theoretical Physics Group, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW72BZ (United Kingdom)

We prove that a large class of leading-order string solutions which generalize both the plane-wave and fundamental string backgrounds are, in fact, exact solutions to all orders in [alpha][prime]. These include, in particular, the traveling waves along the fundamental string. The key features of these solutions are a null symmetry and a chiral coupling of the string to the background. Using dimensional reduction, one finds that the extremal electric dilatonic black holes and their recently discovered generalizations with NUT charge and rotation are also exact solutions. We show that our bosonic solutions are also exact solutions of the heterotic string theory with no extra gauge field background.

• OSTI ID: 6405096
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Vol. 51:6; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
STRING MODELS
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
BLACK HOLES
CHIRAL SYMMETRY
CONFORMAL INVARIANCE
COUPLING
SPACE-TIME
TENSOR FIELDS
TRAVELLING WAVES
COMPOSITE MODELS
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUARK MODEL
SYMMETRY
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