Plane Waves and Vacuum Interpolation

Abstract

A 1/2-BPS family of time dependent plane wave spacetimes which give rise to exactly solvable string backgrounds is presented. In particular a solution which interpolates between Minkowski spacetime and the maximally supersymmetric homogeneous plane wave along a timelike direction is analyzed. We work in d=4, N=2 supergravity, but the results can be easily extended to d=10,11. The conformal boundary of a particular class of solutions is studied.

13 pages, 3 figures

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