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Remarks on infinite towers of gravitational memories

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-11-24 v2

Abstract

An infinite tower of gravitational memories was proposed in \cite{Compere:2019odm} by considering the matter-induced vacuum transition in the impulsive limit. We give an alternative realization of the infinite towers of gravitational memories in Newman-Penrose formalism. We also demonstrate that the memories at each order can be associated to the same supertranslation instead of infinite towers of supertranslations or superrotations.

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@article{arxiv.2008.12109,
  title  = {Remarks on infinite towers of gravitational memories},
  author = {Pujian Mao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.12109},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

v2: minor revision, several issues clarified, typos corrected, refs. added