@Article{deRham+Motohashi2017, author="de Rham, C. and Motohashi, H.", title="Caustics for spherical waves", journal="Physical Review D", year="2017", publisher="Amer Physical Soc", volume="95", number="6", pages="064008--13pp", abstract="We study the development of caustics in shift-symmetric scalar field theories by focusing on simple waves with an SO(p)-symmetry in an arbitrary number of space dimensions. We show that the pure Galileon, the DBI-Galileon, and the extreme-relativistic Galileon naturally emerge as the unique set of caustic-free theories, highlighting a link between the caustic-free condition for simple SO(p)-waves and the existence of either a global Galilean symmetry or a global (extreme-) relativistic Galilean symmetry.", optnote="WOS:000396031700006", optnote="exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3032), last updated on Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:12:59 +0000", issn="2470-0010", doi="10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008", opturl="http://arxiv.org/abs/1611.05038", opturl="https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.95.064008", archivePrefix="arXiv", eprint="1611.05038", language="English" }