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BMS charges in polyhomogeneous spacetimes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-09-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We classify the asymptotic charges of a class of polyhomogeneous asymptotically-flat spacetimes with finite shear, generalising recent results on smooth asymptotically-flat spacetimes. Polyhomogenous spacetimes are a formally consistent class of spacetimes that do not satisfy the well-known peeling property. As such, they constitute a more physical class of asymptotically-flat spacetimes compared to the smooth class. In particular, we establish that the generalised conserved non-linear Newman-Penrose charges that are known to exist for such spacetimes are a subset of asymptotic BMS charges.

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@article{arxiv.2007.15672,
  title  = {BMS charges in polyhomogeneous spacetimes},
  author = {Mahdi Godazgar and George Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2007.15672},
  year   = {2020}
}

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42 pages

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