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Supertranslations at Timelike Infinity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2022-02-15 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We propose a definition of asymptotic flatness at timelike infinity in four spacetime dimensions. We present a detailed study of the asymptotic equations of motion and the action of supertranslations on asymptotic fields. We show that the Lee-Wald symplectic form Ω(g,δ1g,δ2g)\Omega (g, \delta_1 g, \delta_2 g) does not get contributions from future timelike infinity with our boundary conditions. As a result, the "future charges" can be computed on any two-dimensional surface surrounding the sources at timelike infinity. We present expressions for supertranslation and Lorentz charges.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2111.08907,
  title  = {Supertranslations at Timelike Infinity},
  author = {Sumanta Chakraborty and Debodirna Ghosh and Sk Jahanur Hoque and Aniket Khairnar and Amitabh Virmani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.08907},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

46 pages; v2 47 pages, refs + comments added, version to appear in JHEP

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