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Metin Gürses1, Sigbjørn Hervik2, Tahsin Çağrı Şişman3
1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences Bilkent University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey.
Abstract:
We show that the recently found anti-de Sitter (AdS)-plane and AdS-spherical wave solutions of quadratic curvature gravity also solve the most general higher derivative theory in D dimensions. More generally, we show that the field equations of such theories reduce to an equation linear in the Ricci tensor for Kerr-Schild spacetimes having type-N Weyl and type-N traceless Ricci tensors.
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