J. Figueroa-O’Farrill, Ross Grassie, Stefan Prohazka
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Abstract
We exhibit all spatially isotropic homogeneous Galilean spacetimes of dimension (n+1)>=4, including the novel torsional ones, as null reductions of homogeneous pp-wave spacetimes. We also show that the pp-waves are sourced by pure radiation fields and analyse their global properties.
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Scope
Geometrical methods in mathematical physics
Lie theory and differential equations
Classical and quantum integrable systems
Algebraic methods in dynamical systems and chaos
Exactly and quasi-exactly solvable models
Lie groups and algebras, representation theory
Orthogonal polynomials and special functions
Integrable probability and stochastic processes
Quantum algebras, quantum groups and their representations
Symplectic, Poisson and noncommutative geometry
Algebraic geometry and its applications
Quantum field theories and string/gauge theories
Statistical physics and condensed matter physics
Quantum gravity and cosmology.