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Revisiting the Carrollian Scalar Field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-10-12 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the (conformally coupled) scalar field on a general Carrollian spacetime in arbitrary dimension. The analysis discloses electric and magnetic dynamics. For both, we provide the energy and the momenta of the field, accompanied by their conservation equations. We discuss the conservation and non-conservation properties resulting from the existence of conformal isometries and the associated charges. We illustrate those results for a scalar field propagating on the null boundary of four-dimensional Ricci-flat Robinson--Trautman spacetimes.

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@article{arxiv.2207.01647,
  title  = {Revisiting the Carrollian Scalar Field},
  author = {David Rivera-Betancour and Matthieu Vilatte},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.01647},
  year   = {2022}
}

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