Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-08-22
Class.Quant.Grav.23:295-308,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
20 pages, LaTeX; typos corrected, journal version
Scientific paper
10.1088/0264-9381/23/2/001
We consider the exact solutions of the supergravity theories in various dimensions in which the space-time has the form M_{d} x S^{D-d} where M_{d} is an Einstein space admitting a conformal Killing vector and S^{D-d} is a sphere of an appropriate dimension. We show that, if the cosmological constant of M_{d} is negative and the conformal Killing vector is space-like, then such solutions will have a conformal Penrose limit: M^{(0)}_{d} x S^{D-d} where M^{(0)}_{d} is a generalized d-dimensional AdS plane wave. We study the properties of the limiting solutions and find that M^{(0)}_{d} has 1/4 supersymmetry as well as a Virasoro symmetry. We also describe how the pp-curvature singularity of M^{(0)}_{d} is resolved in the particular case of the D6-branes of D=10 type IIA supergravity theory. This distinguished case provides an interesting generalization of the plane waves in D=11 supergravity theory and suggests a duality between the SU(2) gauged d=8 supergravity of Salam and Sezgin on M^{(0)}_{8} and the d=7 ungauged supergravity theory on its pp-wave boundary.
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