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Semi-classical BMS-blocks from the Oscillator Construction

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-04-21 v2

Abstract

Flat-space holography requires a thorough understanding of BMS symmetry. We introduce an oscillator construction of the highest-weight representation of the bms3\mathfrak{bms}_3 algebra and show that it is consistent with known results concerning the bms3\mathfrak{bms}_3 module. We take advantage of this framework to prove that bms3\mathfrak{bms}_3-blocks exponentiate in the semi-classical limit, where one of the central charges is large. Within this context, we compute perturbatively heavy, and heavy-light vacuum bms3\mathfrak{bms}_3-blocks.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2012.09173,
  title  = {Semi-classical BMS-blocks from the Oscillator Construction},
  author = {Martin Ammon and Seán Gray and Claire Moran and Michel Pannier and Katharina Wölfl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09173},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

26 + 17 pages; v2: Minor improvements, references added, matches published version

R2 v1 2026-06-23T21:01:42.381Z