Scalar Fields Nonminimally Coupled to pp Waves

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2005-01-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0501040v3

Phys.Rev. D71 (2005) 084004

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

14 pages, RevTeX. Minor changes. To appear in Phys. Rev. D

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.71.084004

Here, we report pp waves configurations of three-dimensional gravity for which a scalar field nonminimally coupled to them acts as a source. In absence of self-interaction the solutions are gravitational plane waves with a profile fixed in terms of the scalar wave. In the self-interacting case, only power-law potentials parameterized by the nonminimal coupling constant are allowed by the field equations. In contrast with the free case the self-interacting scalar field does not behave like a wave since it depends only on the wave-front coordinate. We address the same problem when gravitation is governed by topologically massive gravity and the source is a free scalar field. From the pp waves derived in this case, we obtain at the zero topological mass limit, new pp wave solutions of conformal gravity for any arbitrary value of the nonminimal coupling parameter. Finally, we extend these solutions to the self-interacting case of conformal gravity.

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