Anti-de sitter-wave solutions of higher derivative theories
Date
2013
Authors
Gürses, M.
Hervik, S.
Şişman, T. Ç.
Tekin, B.
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Source Title
Physical Review Letters
Print ISSN
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN
1079-7114
Publisher
American Physical Society
Volume
111
Issue
10
Pages
101101-1 - 101101-5
Language
English
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Abstract
We show that the recently found anti-de Sitter (AdS)-plane and AdS-spherical wave solutions of quadratic curvature gravity also solve the most general higher derivative theory in D dimensions. More generally, we show that the field equations of such theories reduce to an equation linear in the Ricci tensor for Kerr-Schild spacetimes having type-N Weyl and type-N traceless Ricci tensors. © 2013 American Physical Society.