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Chiral $\Lambda$-$\mathfrak{bms}_4$ symmetry of 3d conformal gravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-04-08 v3 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose mixed boundary conditions for 3d conformal gravity consistent with variational principle in its second-order formalism that admit the chiral Λ\Lambda-bms4\mathfrak{bms}_4 algebra as their asymptotic symmetry algebra. This algebra is one of the four chiral W\mathcal W-algebra extensions of so(2,3)\mathfrak{so}(2,3) and is a generalisation of the chiral bms4\mathfrak{bms}_4 algebra responsible for soft theorems of graviton MHV amplitudes in R1,3{\mathbb R}^{1,3} gravity to the case of non-zero negative cosmological constant. The corresponding charges calculated using the modified covariant phase space formalism are shown to be finite and integrable, and realise this non-linear W{\cal W}-algebra.

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@article{arxiv.2405.20244,
  title  = {Chiral $\Lambda$-$\mathfrak{bms}_4$ symmetry of 3d conformal gravity},
  author = {Nishant Gupta and Nemani V. Suryanarayana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.20244},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

23 pages. v3: Accepted for publication in EPJC. The fourth gauge condition is modified to include the global AdS$_3$ solution. Minor typos corrected and improved overall presentation. v2: Minor modifications and corrected typos in the equations which do not affect the final results. References added

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:47:29.331Z