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No horizons in pp-waves

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arxiv hep-th/0210234 v1 pith:W2VTX6SU submitted 2002-10-24 hep-th gr-qc

Veronika E Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani This is my paper · ORCID
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We argue that pp-wave backgrounds can not admit event horizons. We also comment on pp-wave generalizations which would admit horizons and show that there exists a black string solution which asymptotes to a five dimensional plane wave background.

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