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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

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 revisit the boundary dynamics of asymptotically flat, three dimensional gravity. The boundary is governed by a momentum conservation equation and an energy conservation equation, which we interpret as fluid equations, following the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Robert F. Penna

This article reviews one of the most intriguing properties of black hole spacetimes known in the literature -- gravitational memory effect, and its connection with asymptotic symmetries, also termed as Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Shailesh Kumar

The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs-van der Burg (BMS) group is the asymptotic symmetry group of radiating asymptotically flat spacetimes. It has recently received renewed interest in the context of the flat holography and the infrared structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Romain Ruzziconi

The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the BMS symmetry group, which arises as the asymptotic symmetry group of four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity, and to uncover its relation to the Carroll group.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-28 Yvonne Calò

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

Recently symmetries of gravity and gauge fields in the asymptotic regions of spacetime have been shown to play vital role in their low energy scattering phenomena. Further, for the black hole spacetime, near horizon symmetry has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-25 Mousumi Maitra , Debaprasad Maity , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

These notes are an introduction to asymptotic symmetries in gauge theories, with a focus on general relativity in four dimensions. We explain how to impose consistent sets of boundary conditions in the gauge fixing approach and how to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-05 Romain Ruzziconi

In a previous paper (hep-th/0306142) we have started to explore the holographic principle in the case of asymptotically flat space-times and analyzed in particular different aspects of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, namely the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Giovanni Arcioni , Claudio Dappiaggi

The asymptotic structure of null and spatial infinities of asymptotically flat spacetimes plays an essential role in discussing gravitational radiation, gravitational memory effect, and conserved quantities in General Relativity. Bondi,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Mariem Magdy

After motivating the relevance of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group over the last decades, we review how concepts such as Penrose diagrams and the covariant phase space formalism can be used to understand the asymptotic structure of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Xavier Kervyn

We explore the holographic principle in the context of asymptotically flat space-times by means of the asymptotic symmetry group of this class of space-times, the so called Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. In particular we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Claudio Dappiaggi

We consider a microscopic analogue of the BMS analysis of asymptotic symmetries by analysing universal geometric structures on infinitesimal tangent light cones. Thereby, two natural microscopic symmetry groups arise: A non-trivially…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Daniel Alexander Weiss

We study the Lie group structure of asymptotic symmetry groups in General Relativity from the viewpoint of infinite-dimensional geometry. To this end, we review the geometric definition of asymptotic simplicity and emptiness due to Penrose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-01 David Prinz , Alexander Schmeding

BMS group (and it's various generalizations) at null infinity have been studied extensively in the literature as the symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetimes. The intricate relationship between soft theorems and the BMS symmetries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Anupam A H , Aniket Khairnar , Arpan Kundu

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, as the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetimes, plays a central role in connecting infrared structures of gravity with soft theorems and gravitational memory. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Nihar Ranjan Ghosh , Malay K. Nandy

The BMS (Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs) symmetry arises as the asymptotic symmetry of flat spacetime at null infinity. In particular, the BMS algebra for three dimensional flat spacetime (BMS$_3$) is generated by the super-rotation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Peng-xiang Hao , Wei Song , Xianjin Xie , Yuan Zhong

The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group in three dimensions is the symmetry group of asymptotically flat three-dimensional spacetimes. It is the semi-direct product of the diffeomorphism group of the circle with the space of its adjoint…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Glenn Barnich , Blagoje Oblak

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
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