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Main Authors: Despontin, Emilie, Detournay, Stéphane, Fontaine, Dima
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12760
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  • We study the asymptotic symmetries of the Nappi-Witten spacetime in four dimensions, a plane wave arising as the Penrose limit of AdS$_2\times S^2$. Imposing suitable boundary conditions at large transverse distance, we uncover a new infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra allowing for non-trivial central extensions. The corresponding phase space encompasses the most general four-dimensional pp-wave metric, including in particular the Penrose limit of Kerr black holes.