Metric reconstruction from celestial multipoles
Abstract
The most general vacuum solution to Einstein's field equations with no incoming radiation can be constructed perturbatively from two infinite sets of canonical multipole moments, which are found to be mapped into each other under gravitational electric-magnetic duality at the non-linear level. We demonstrate that in non-radiative regions such spacetimes are completely characterized by a set of conserved celestial charges that consist of the Geroch-Hansen multipole moments, the generalized BMS charges and additional celestial multipoles accounting for subleading memory effects. Transitions among non-radiative regions, induced by radiative processes, are therefore labelled by celestial charges, which are identified in terms of canonical multipole moments of the linearized gravitational field. The dictionary between celestial charges and canonical multipole moments allows to holographically reconstruct the metric in de Donder, Newman-Unti or Bondi gauge outside of sources.
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@article{arxiv.2206.12597,
title = {Metric reconstruction from celestial multipoles},
author = {Geoffrey Compère and Roberto Oliveri and Ali Seraj},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.12597},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
v1: 25 pages; v2: text improved, references added, sec.3 "Gravitational electric-magnetic duality" expanded, matches published version in JHEP