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Extrapolating the massive fields to future timelike infinity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-12-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

It is well-known that future timelike infinity (i+i^+) in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is conformal to the unit three-dimensional hyperboloid (H3H^3). We asymptotically expand massive fields with spin 0,1,20,1,2 near i+i^+ and extrapolate them onto this hyperboloid. These fields oscillate with a frequency equal to their mass and exhibit a universal asymptotic decay τ3/2\tau^{-3/2}. The fundamental fields are free and encode the outgoing scattering data. They are local operators defined on the boundary H3H^3 with which we construct the Poincar\'e charges. The Poincar\'e algebra can be extended to MDiff(H3)C(H3)\text{MDiff}(H^3)\ltimes C^{\infty}(H^3) 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 i+i^+ 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

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