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Peeling property and asymptotic symmetries with a cosmological constant

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-04-30 v3

Abstract

This paper establishes two things in an asymptotically (anti-)de Sitter spacetime, by direct computations in the physical spacetime (i.e. with no involvement of spacetime compactification): (1) The peeling property of the Weyl spinor is guaranteed. In the case where there are Maxwell fields present, the peeling properties of both Weyl and Maxwell spinors similarly hold, if the leading order term of the spin coefficient ρ\rho when expanded as inverse powers of rr (where rr is the usual spherical radial coordinate, and rr\rightarrow\infty is null infinity, I\mathcal{I}) has coefficient 1-1. (2) In the absence of gravitational radiation (a conformally flat I\mathcal{I}), the group of asymptotic symmetries is trivial, with no room for supertranslations.

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@article{arxiv.1705.00435,
  title  = {Peeling property and asymptotic symmetries with a cosmological constant},
  author = {Vee-Liem Saw and Freeman Chee Siong Thun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.00435},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

28 pages, two recent relevant references are included. Accepted for publication by International Journal of Modern Physics D