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We initiate the construction of integrable λ-deformed WZW models based on non-semisimple groups. We focus on the four-dimensional case whose underlying symmetries are based on the non-semisimple group \( {E}_2^c \). The corresponding gravitational backgrounds of Lorentzian signature are plane waves which can be obtained as Penrose limits of the λ-deformed SU(2) background times a timelike coordinate for appropriate choices of the λ-matrix. We construct two such deformations which we demonstrate to be integrable. They both deform the Nappi-Witten plane wave and are inequivalent. Nevertheless, they have the same underlying symmetry algebra which is a Saletan-type contraction of that for the λ-deformed SU(2) background with a timelike direction. We also construct a plane wave from the Penrose limit of the λ-deformation of the \( \frac{\textrm{SU}(2)}{\textrm{U}(1)} \) coset CFT times a timelike coordinate which represents the deformation of a logarithmic CFT constructed in the past. Finally, we briefly consider contractions based on the simplest Yang-baxter σ-models.
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Sfetsos, K., Siampos, K. Integrable models based on non-semi-simple groups and plane wave target spacetimes. J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 38 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2023)038
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