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Asymptotic symmetries and subleading soft graviton theorem

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-12-18 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Motivated by the equivalence between soft graviton theorem and Ward identities for the supertranslation symmetries belonging to the BMS group, we propose a new extension (different from the so-called extended BMS) of the BMS group which is a semi-direct product of supertranslations and Diff(S^2). We propose a definition for the canonical generators associated to the smooth diffeomorphisms and show that the resulting Ward identities are equivalent to the subleading soft graviton theorem of Cachazo and Strominger.

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@article{arxiv.1408.2228,
  title  = {Asymptotic symmetries and subleading soft graviton theorem},
  author = {Miguel Campiglia and Alok Laddha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.2228},
  year   = {2014}
}

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25 pages, published version