Gürses, M.Hervik, S.Şişman, T. Ç.Tekin, B.2016-02-082016-02-0820130031-9007http://hdl.handle.net/11693/20813We 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.EnglishD dimensionsField equationHigher derivativesRicci tensorWave solutionAtomic physicsPhysicsTensorsArticle10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.1011011079-7114