From pp-Waves to Galilean Spacetimes

We exhibit all spatially isotropic homogeneous Galilean spacetimes of dimension ( + 1) ≥ 4, including the novel torsional ones, as null reductions of homogeneous pp-wave spacetimes. We also show that the pp-waves are sourced by pure radiation fields and analyse their global properties.

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2023
Main Authors: Figueroa-O'Farrill, José, Grassie, Ross, Prohazka, Stefan
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2023
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211908
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From pp-Waves to Galilean Spacetimes. José Figueroa-O'Farrill, Ross Grassie and Stefan Prohazka. SIGMA 19 (2023), 035, 16 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 22F30; 53C30; 53Z05
arXiv:2208.07627
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/211908
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2023.035
We exhibit all spatially isotropic homogeneous Galilean spacetimes of dimension ( + 1) ≥ 4, including the novel torsional ones, as null reductions of homogeneous pp-wave spacetimes. We also show that the pp-waves are sourced by pure radiation fields and analyse their global properties.
We are grateful to Dieter Van den Bleeken, who spotted an erroneous claim in an earlier version of this note. JMF would like to acknowledge many useful discussions with Can Görmez and Dieter Van den Bleeken on related topics leading up to [10]. In addition, we are grateful to an anonymous referee for a critical reading of the manuscript and a number of insightful comments and suggestions. SP was supported by the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant (RPG-2019-218) “What is Non-Relativistic Quantum Gravity and is it Holographic?”.
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