String Gyratons in Supergravity

Abstract

We study solutions of the supergravity equations with the string-like sources moving with the speed of light. An exact solution is obtained for the gravitational field of a boosted ring string in any dimension greater than three.

7 pages;v2 minor changes & references added, final in PRD

References in corpus (7)

• Strings in flat space and pp waves from $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang Mills
• A new maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory
• Gravitational field of a spinning radiation beam-pulse in higher dimensions
• Gravitational field of relativistic gyratons
• Relativistic gyratons in asymptotically AdS spacetime
• Ultrarelativistic boost of the black ring
• Ultrarelativistic boost of spinning black rings

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• Electromagnetic fields with vanishing scalar invariants
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• Vanishing Scalar Invariant Spacetimes in Supergravity
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• Collision of high-energy closed strings: Formation of a ring-like apparent horizon