Boosting Taub-NUT to a BPS NUT-wave

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dc.creatorArgurio, Riccardo
dc.creatorDehouck, François
dc.creatorHouart, Laurent
dc.date2008-11-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:34:19Z
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dc.descriptionThe boosted Taub-NUT metric with zero ADM mass is shown to possess a dual momentum in the direction of the boost giving credit to the existence of another 4-vector K_μin linearized gravity associated to the NUT charge and dual to the usual P_μ. Taking the infinite boost limit we obtain a shock pp-wave with NUT charge. We show that the latter is the gravitational dual of the infinitely boosted Schwarzschild metric, also known as the Aichelburg-Sexl pp-wave. We review the fact that this new shock pp-wave is also an half-BPS solution of N=1 supergravity. It has a BPS bound equal to K_t=|K_z|.
dc.description12 pages
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0538
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0538
dc.identifierJHEP 0901:045,2009
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/045
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/217388
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleBoosting Taub-NUT to a BPS NUT-wave
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