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New dual gravitational charges

High Energy Physics - Theory 2019-01-16 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that there are a further infinite number of, previously unknown, supertranslation charges. These can be viewed as duals of the known BMS charges corresponding to supertranslations. In Newman-Penrose language, these new supertranslation charges roughly correspond to the imaginary part of the leading term in ψ2\psi_2. We find these charges by dualising the Barnich-Brandt asymptotic charges and argue that this prescription gives rise to new bona fide charges at null infinity.

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@article{arxiv.1812.01641,
  title  = {New dual gravitational charges},
  author = {Hadi Godazgar and Mahdi Godazgar and C. N. Pope},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01641},
  year   = {2019}
}

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17 pages

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