Conformal Carroll groups and BMS symmetry
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2015-06-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is shown to be the conformal extension of Levy-Leblond's "Carroll" group. Further extension to the Newman-Unti (NU) group is also discussed in the Carroll framework.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1402.5894,
title = {Conformal Carroll groups and BMS symmetry},
author = {C. Duval and G. W. Gibbons and P. A. Horvathy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.5894},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, no figure. Fast Track COmmunication, to appear in Class. Quant. Grav