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An enhanced version of the conformal BMS$_{3}$ algebra is presented. It is shown to emerge from the asymptotic structure of an extension of conformal gravity in 3D by Pope and Townsend that consistently accommodates an additional spin-2…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-18 Oscar Fuentealba , Iva Lovrekovic , David Tempo , Ricardo Troncoso

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

It is argued that the symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in 4 dimensions should be taken as the semi-direct sum of supertranslations with infinitesimal local conformal transformations and not, as usually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Glenn Barnich , Cedric Troessaert

We study embeddings of symmetric groups to the space Cremona group.

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-24 Yuri Prokhorov

We show that time-reflection symmetric, asymptotically flat, static vacuum data which admit a non-trivial conformal rescaling which leads again to such data must be axi-symmetric and admit a conformal Killing field. Moreover, it is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Helmut Friedrich

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

A complete Riemannian manifold without conjugate points is called asymptotically harmonic if the mean curvature of its horospheres is a universal constant. Examples of asymptotically harmonic manifolds include flat spaces and rank one…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-10-17 Andrew M. Zimmer

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

We study umbilically synchronized space-times $M$ that have vanishing electric part of the Weyl tensor and show that (i) If $dim(M) = 4$, then $M$ is conformally flat, (ii) If $dim(M) > 4$, $M$ is conformally flat if and only if the spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-15 Ramesh Sharma

We discuss various properties of the conformal field equations and their consequences for the asymptotic structure of space-times.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Helmut Friedrich

We describe a novel twistorial construction of the asymptotic BMS symmetries at null infinity for asymptotically flat spacetimes. We define BMS twistors as spinor solutions to some set of components of the usual spacetime twistor equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-07 Kartik Prabhu

The classical procedures which define the relativistic notion of space-time can be implemented in the framework of Quantum Field Theory. Only relying on the conformal symmetries of field propagation, time-frequency transfer and localization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We study the utilization of conformal compactification within the conformal approach to solving the constraints of general relativity for asymptotically flat initial data. After a general discussion of the framework, particular attention is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sascha Husa

The ordinary Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group B is the common asymptotic symmetry group of all asymptotically flat Lorentzian space-times. As such, B is the best candidate for the universal symmetry group of General Relativity. However, in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2013-12-05 Evangelos Melas

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

The acceleration transformations form a 4-parameter Abelian subgroup of the conformal group of Minkowski spacetime. The passive interpretation of acceleration transformations leads to a congruence of uniformly accelerated observers in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-05 Bahram Mashhoon

In this note, we outline the general development of a theory of symmetric homology of algebras, an analog of cyclic homology where the cyclic groups are replaced by symmetric groups. This theory is developed using the framework of crossed…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2007-11-05 Shaun Ault , Zbigniew Fiedorowicz

The ordinary Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group B is the common asymptotic symmetry group of all asymptotically flat Lorentzian space-times. As such, B is the best candidate for the universal symmetry group of General Relativity. However, in…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2014-02-07 Evangelos Melas

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 show that the warp factor of a generic asymptotically flat black hole in five dimensions can be adjusted such that a conformal symmetry emerges. The construction preserves all near horizon properties of the black holes, such as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Mirjam Cvetič , Finn Larsen