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In this work, we compute the gravitational wave displacement and spin memory effects in de Sitter spacetime. Gravitational waves in asymptotically flat spacetimes are described by the Bondi-Sachs framework, where radiation at null infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Anthi Voulgari Revof , Shubhanshu Tiwari

The challenge of defining a physical notion of gravitational waves, together with the associated dynamical degrees of freedom of a gravity theory, is a long-standing problem that famously lead to the discovery the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Jann Zosso

Asymptotic symmetries of theories with gravity in d=2m+2 spacetime dimensions are reconsidered for m>1 in light of recent results concerning d=4 BMS symmetries. Weinberg's soft graviton theorem in 2m+2 dimensions is re-expressed as a Ward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Daniel Kapec , Vyacheslav Lysov , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger

We argue that soft gravitational radiation leads to a misidentification of the angular momentum of stars seen in distant galaxies, and that this could be interpreted as an additional mass inside the orbit of the star. It is tempting to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-16 Tom Banks , Willy Fischler

General relativity explains gravitational radiation from binary black hole or neutron star mergers, from core-collapse supernovae and even from the inflation period in cosmology. These waves exhibit a unique effect called memory or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-21 Lydia Bieri , David Garfinkle , Shing-Tung Yau

Gravitational wave memory is studied in the context of a certain class of braneworld wormholes. Unlike other wormhole geometries, this novel class of wormholes do not require any exotic matter fields for its traversability. First, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-02 Indranil Chakraborty , Soumya Bhattacharya , Sumanta Chakraborty

We develop a general formalism for treating radiative degrees of freedom near $\mathscr{I}^{+}$ in theories with an arbitrary Ricci-flat internal space. These radiative modes are encoded in a generalized news tensor which decomposes into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Christian Ferko , Gautam Satishchandran , Savdeep Sethi

We revisit the computation of the classical gravitational waveform for a particle moving in a plane wave background using on-shell amplitudes. We emphasize the relationship between gravitational memory and the boundary conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Andrea Cristofoli , Sonja Klisch

We show that the BMS-supertranslations and their associated supermomenta on past null infinity can be related to those on future null infinity, proving the conjecture of Strominger for a class of spacetimes which are asymptotically-flat in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Kartik Prabhu

We study the displacement memory effect and its connection with the extended-BMS symmetries near the horizon of black holes. We show there is a permanent shift in the geodesic deviation vector relating two nearby timelike geodesics placed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-16 Srijit Bhattacharjee , Shailesh Kumar , Arpan Bhattacharyya

Twistors appear to provide a satisfactory treatment of angular momentum for gravitationally radiating systems. The approach is manifestly Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) invariant, and there are no supertranslation ambiguities. The resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Adam D. Helfer

`Gravitational memory' refers to the possibility that, in cosmologies with a time-varying gravitational `constant', objects such as black holes may retain a memory of conditions at the time of their birth. We consider this phenomenon in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Diego F Torres , Andrew R Liddle , Franz E Schunck

Recently, it has been shown that the Weinberg's formula for soft graviton production is essentially a Fourier transformation of the formula for gravitational memory which provides an effective way to understand how the classical calculation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-26 Pujian Mao , Hao Ouyang

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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-11 Wen-Bin Liu , Jiang Long

Supertranslations are usually defined as asymptotic symmetries associated with spacetime boundaries, such as null infinity and black hole horizons. In this Letter, we show that supertranslations admit a natural, coordinate-independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Pujian Mao

A simple general relativity theory for objects moving in gravitational fields is developed based on studying the behavior of an atom in a gravitational field. The theory is applied to calculate the satellite time dilation, light deflection…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yehea I. Ismail

Black bounces are spacetimes that can be interpreted as either black holes or wormholes depending on specific parameters. In this study, we examine the Simpson-Visser and Bardeen-type solutions as black bounces and investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-22 H. Hadi , R. Naderi

The article deals with photon propagation in pp-wave spacetimes in the strong gravitational-wave regime and its consequences for redshift measurements. We show that null geodesics crossing a localized pp-wave pulse exhibit an energy memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf

Gravitational wave memory is a nonoscillatory correction to the gravitational wave strain predicted by general relativity, which has yet to be detected. Within general relativity, its dominant component, known as the null memory, can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Lavinia Heisenberg , Nicolás Yunes , Jann Zosso

The existence of gravitational radiation arriving at null infinity -- i.e. escaping from the physical system -- is addressed in the presence of a non-negative cosmological constant $\Lambda\geq 0$. The case with vanishing $\Lambda$ is well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-11 José M. M. Senovilla