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Simplifying (super-)BMS algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-09-15 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that the non-linear BMS5_5 symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat Einstein gravity in five dimensions, as well as the super-BMS4_4 superalgebra of asymptotically flat supergravity, can be redefined so as to take a direct sum structure. In the new presentation of the (super-)algebra, angle-dependent translations and angle-dependent supersymmetry transformations commute with the (super-)Poincar\'e generators. We also explain in detail the structure and charge-integrability of asymptotic symmetries with symmetry parameters depending on the fields (through the charges themselves), a topic relevant for nonlinear asymptotic symmetry algebras.

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@article{arxiv.2309.07600,
  title  = {Simplifying (super-)BMS algebras},
  author = {Oscar Fuentealba and Marc Henneaux},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.07600},
  year   = {2023}
}

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23 pages, no figures

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