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Double-Copy Supertranslations

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-27 v2

Abstract

In the framework of the convolutional double copy, we investigate the asymptotic symmetries of the gravitational multiplet stemming from the residual symmetries of its single-copy constituents at null infinity. We show that the asymptotic symmetries of Maxwell fields in D=4 imply ``double-copy supertranslations", i.e. BMS supertranslations and two-form asymptotic symmetries, together with the existence of infinitely many conserved charges involving the double-copy scalar. With the vector fields in Lorenz gauge, the double-copy parameters display a radial expansion involving logarithmic subleading terms, essential for the corresponding charges to be nonvanishing.

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@article{arxiv.2402.11595,
  title  = {Double-Copy Supertranslations},
  author = {Pietro Ferrero and Dario Francia and Carlo Heissenberg and Matteo Romoli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11595},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

21 pages, LaTeX. Extended version; clarifications and references added, typos and notation fixed

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