New class of non-Einstein pp-wave solutions to quadratic gravity
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| author | Heefer, Sjors Niehof, Lorens F. Fuster, Andrea |
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| contents | We obtain a new family of exact vacuum solutions to quadratic gravity that describe pp-waves with two-dimensional wave surfaces that can have any prescribed constant curvature. When the wave surfaces are flat we recover the Peres waves obtained by Madsen, a subset of which forms precisely the vacuum pp-waves of general relativity. If, on the other hand, the wave surfaces have non-vanishing constant curvature then all our solutions are non-Einstein (i.e. they do not solve Einstein's equations in vacuum, with or without cosmological constant) and we find that the curvature is linearly related to the value of the cosmological constant. We show that the vacuum field equations reduce to a simple linear biharmonic equation on the curved wave surfaces, and as consequence, the general solution can be written down. We also provide some simple explicit examples. |
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| spellingShingle | New class of non-Einstein pp-wave solutions to quadratic gravity Heefer, Sjors Niehof, Lorens F. Fuster, Andrea General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics We obtain a new family of exact vacuum solutions to quadratic gravity that describe pp-waves with two-dimensional wave surfaces that can have any prescribed constant curvature. When the wave surfaces are flat we recover the Peres waves obtained by Madsen, a subset of which forms precisely the vacuum pp-waves of general relativity. If, on the other hand, the wave surfaces have non-vanishing constant curvature then all our solutions are non-Einstein (i.e. they do not solve Einstein's equations in vacuum, with or without cosmological constant) and we find that the curvature is linearly related to the value of the cosmological constant. We show that the vacuum field equations reduce to a simple linear biharmonic equation on the curved wave surfaces, and as consequence, the general solution can be written down. We also provide some simple explicit examples. |
| title | New class of non-Einstein pp-wave solutions to quadratic gravity |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.19147 |