Propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry

In this thesis, I study propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, with the goal to uncover some constraint on the supergravity action in the AdS space. In studying the shock wave geometry in an anti-deSitter (AdS) space, I find that the functional form of the shock wave metric does not receive a' correction, but the wave profile does. Then I study the propagation of gravitons in the shock wave geometry and show that the wave function has a finite jump at the shock wave frontier, and this corresponds to a shift in position of the graviton in the semi-classical picture.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2009

Author dc:creator

• Lang, Ruitian

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Hong Liu.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51580

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/51580