Caustics for spherical waves
Abstract
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.
- Authors:
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- 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)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1423957
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1346094
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009946
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 95; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS
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de Rham, Claudia, and Motohashi, Hayato. Caustics for spherical waves. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008.
de Rham, Claudia, & Motohashi, Hayato. Caustics for spherical waves. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008
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title = {Caustics for spherical waves},
author = {de Rham, Claudia and Motohashi, Hayato},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 6,
volume = 95,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Tue Mar 07 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}
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