A 2D Stress Tensor for 4D Gravity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2017-09-27 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We use the subleading soft-graviton theorem to construct an operator whose insertion in the four-dimensional tree-level quantum gravity -matrix obeys the Virasoro-Ward identities of the energy momentum tensor of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT). The celestial sphere at Minkowskian null infinity plays the role of the Euclidean sphere of the CFT, with the Lorentz group acting as the unbroken subgroup.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.00282,
title = {A 2D Stress Tensor for 4D Gravity},
author = {Daniel Kapec and Prahar Mitra and Ana-Maria Raclariu and Andrew Strominger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.00282},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
12 pages. v2: updated acknowledgements