Type N spacetimes as solutions of extended new massive gravity
Abstract
We study algebraic type N spacetimes in the extended new massive gravity (NMG), considering both the Born-Infeld model (BI-NMG) and the model of NMG with any finite order curvature corrections. We show that for these spacetimes, the field equations of BI-NMG take the form of the massive (tensorial) Klein-Gordon type equation, just as it happens for ordinary NMG. This fact enables us to obtain the type N solution to BI-NMG, utilizing the general type N solution of NMG, earlier found in our work. We also obtain type N solutions to NMG with all finite order curvature corrections and show that, in contrast to BI-NMG, this model admits the critical point solutions, which are counterparts of "logarithmic" AdS pp-waves solutions of NMG.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- May 2012
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1201.5724
- Bibcode:
- 2012PhLB..711..117A
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, twocolumn REVTeX