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Symmetry group at future null infinity III: Gravitational theory

High Energy Physics - Theory 2023-10-11 v2

Abstract

We reduce the gravitational theory in an asymptotically flat spacetime to future null infinity. We compute the Poincar\'e flux operators at future null infinity and construct the supertranslation and superrotation generators. The generators are shown to form a closed symmetry algebra by including a generalized gravitational duality operator. We could regard all the generators as the Hamiltonians with respect to the symmetry transformation in the boundary field theory. Our construction of the generators may relate to the BMS fluxes defined in the literature by adding counterterms to the Bondi mass and angular momentum aspects.

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@article{arxiv.2307.01068,
  title  = {Symmetry group at future null infinity III: Gravitational theory},
  author = {Wen-Bin Liu and Jiang Long},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.01068},
  year   = {2023}
}

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67 pages, revised version

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