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STRINGS IN PLANE-FRONTED GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

STRINGS IN PLANE-FRONTED GRAVITATIONAL WAVES

Brinkmannā€™s plane-fronted gravitational waves with parallel rays ā€” in short pp-wavesā€” are shown to provide, under suitable conditions, exact string vacua at all orders of the Ļƒ-model perturbation expansion.