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We explore self-similar collapse solutions to the Einstein-axion-dilaton system in arbitrary spacetime dimensions, which are invariant under spacetime dilation combined with internal SL(2, ℝ) transformations. We set up a numerical formalism, and test it in four and five dimensions, discovering several new families of solutions in the three conjugacy classes of sl(2, ℝ).
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Antonelli, R., Hatefi, E. On self-similar axion-dilaton configurations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 74 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2020)074
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