Penrose Limits and Spacetime Singularities

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2003-12-02

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0312029v3

Class.Quant.Grav.21:L43,2004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

9 pages, LaTeX2e; v2: additional references and cosmetic corrections

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/21/7/L02

We give a covariant characterisation of the Penrose plane wave limit: the plane wave profile matrix $A(u)$ is the restriction of the null geodesic deviation matrix (curvature tensor) of the original spacetime metric to the null geodesic, evaluated in a comoving frame. We also consider the Penrose limits of spacetime singularities and show that for a large class of black hole, cosmological and null singularities (of Szekeres-Iyer ``power-law type''), including those of the FRW and Schwarzschild metrics, the result is a singular homogeneous plane wave with profile $A(u)\sim u^{-2}$, the scale invariance of the latter reflecting the power-law behaviour of the singularities.

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