Extrapolating the massive fields to future timelike infinity
Abstract
It is well-known that future timelike infinity () in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is conformal to the unit three-dimensional hyperboloid (). We asymptotically expand massive fields with spin near and extrapolate them onto this hyperboloid. These fields oscillate with a frequency equal to their mass and exhibit a universal asymptotic decay . The fundamental fields are free and encode the outgoing scattering data. They are local operators defined on the boundary with which we construct the Poincar\'e charges. The Poincar\'e algebra can be extended to using smeared operators associated with energy and angular momentum densities. For spinning fields, a spin operator must be included to close the algebra. The extended algebra shares the same form as the five-dimensional intertwined Carrollian diffeomorphism and reduces to the BMS algebra at by restricting the choice of test functions and vectors.
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@article{arxiv.2508.15619,
title = {Extrapolating the massive fields to future timelike infinity},
author = {Wen-Bin Liu and Jiang Long},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.15619},
year = {2025}
}
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47 pages, 2 figures