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Plane fronted gravitational waves in Lovelock-Yang-Mills theory

Reinaldo J. Gleiser, Gustavo Dotti

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0505094

Abstract

We obtain plane fronted gravitational waves (PFGWs) in arbitrary dimension in Lovelock gravity, to any order in the Riemann tensor. We exhibit pure gravity as well as Lovelock-Yang-Mills PFGWs. Lovelock-Maxwell and pp waves arise as particular cases. The electrovac solutions trivially satisfy the Lovelock-Born-Infeld field equations. The peculiarities that arise in degenerate Lovelock theories are also analyzed.

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