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The asymptotic symmetry group of general relativity in asymptotically flat spacetimes can be extended from the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group to the generalized BMS (GMBS) group suggested by Campiglia and Laddha, which includes arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Eanna E. Flanagan , David A. Nichols

These are the extended lecture notes for a minicourse presented at the I S\~ao Paulo School on Gravitational Physics discussing the Bondi--Metzner--Sachs (BMS) group, the group of symmetries at null infinity on asymptotically flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Níckolas de Aguiar Alves

We consider a realization of the Galilean conformal algebra (GCA) in two dimensional space-time on the AdS boundary of a particular three dimensional gravity theory, the so-called cosmological topologically massive gravity (CTMG), which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Kyosuke Hotta , Takahiro Kubota , Takahiro Nishinaka

Symmetries play an interesting role in cosmology. They are useful in characterizing the cosmological perturbations generated during inflation and lead to consistency relations involving the soft limit of the statistical correlators of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-06 Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

With a view to understanding extended-BMS symmetries in the framework of the $AdS_4/CFT_3$ correspondence, asymptotically AdS geometries are constructed with null impulsive shockwaves involving a discontinuity in superrotation parameters.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 David A. Lowe , David M. Ramirez

We study asymptotically flat spacetimes in five spacetime dimensions by Hamiltonian methods, focusing on spatial infinity and keeping all asymptotically relevant nonlinearities in the transformation laws and in the charge-generators.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-16 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux , Javier Matulich , Cédric Troessaert

Conformal Carroll symmetry generically arises on null manifolds and is important for holography of asymptotically flat spacetimes, generic black hole horizons and tensionless strings. In this paper, we focus on two dimensional (2d) null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Sudipta Dutta , Kedar S. Kolekar , Punit Sharma

Support material for lectures at the May '25 Galileo Galilei Institute school on asymptotic sym- metries and flat holography. Contains an introduction to Noether theorem for gauge theories and gravity, covariant phase space formalism,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-18 Simone Speziale

We present a new set of asymptotic conditions for gravity at spatial infinity that includes gravitational magnetic-type solutions, allows for a non-trivial Hamiltonian action of the complete $BMS_4$ algebra, and leads to a non-divergent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

This thesis is devoted to the study of the deformation and rigidity of infinite dimensional Lie algebras which are not subject to the Hochschild-Serre factorization theorem. In particular, we consider $bms_{3}$, Virasoro-Kac-Moody and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-05 H. R. Safari

Galilean conformal algebra (GCA) in two dimensions arises as contraction of two copies of the centrally extended Virasoro algebra ($t\rightarrow t, x\rightarrow\epsilon x$ with $\epsilon\rightarrow 0$). The central charges of GCA can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 M. R. Setare , V. Kamali

The Lie algebra generated by supertranslation and superrotation vector fields at null infinity, known as the extended BMS (eBMS) algebra is expected to be a symmetry algebra of the quantum gravity S matrix. However, the algebra of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-29 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

A consistent set of asymptotic conditions for higher spin gravity in three dimensions is proposed in the case of vanishing cosmological constant. The asymptotic symmetries are found to be spanned by a higher spin extension of the BMS3…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-09 Hernan A. Gonzalez , Javier Matulich , Miguel Pino , Ricardo Troncoso

Generalized BMS (gBMS) is the Lie group of the asymptotic symmetries at null infinity, and is proposed to be a symmetry of the quantum S-matrix. Despite much progress in understanding the symplectic structure at null infinity consistent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-08 Adarsh Sudhakar , Amit Suthar

BMS+ transformations act nontrivially on outgoing gravitational scattering data while preserving intrinsic structure at future null infinity (I+). BMS- transformations similarly act on ingoing data at past null infinity (I-). In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrew Strominger

We make a detailed study of the infinite dimensional Galilean Conformal Algebra (GCA) in the case of two spacetime dimensions. Classically, this algebra is precisely obtained from a contraction of the generators of the relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-08 Arjun Bagchi , Rajesh Gopakumar , Ipsita Mandal , Akitsugu Miwa

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetime. It is infinite dimensional and entails an infinite number of conservation laws. According to the black hole membrane…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-23 Robert F. Penna

The extended BMS algebra contains a conformal subgroup that acts on the celestial sphere as SO(3,1). It is of interest to perform mode expansions of free fields in Minkowski spacetime that realize this symmetry in a simple way. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-28 Chang Liu , David A. Lowe

We consider the maximal $\cal{N}-$extended supergravity theory in 3 dimensions with fermionic generators transforming under real but non necessarily irreducible representations of the internal algebra. We obtain the symmetry algebra at null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-20 Nabamita Banerjee , Arindam Bhattacharjee , Ivano Lodato , Turmoli Neogi

We consider two possible flat space limits of three dimensional $\mathcal{N} = (1,1)$ AdS supergravity. They differ by how the supercharges are scaled with the AdS radius $\ell$: the first limit (democratic) leads to the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-02 Ivano Lodato , Wout Merbis