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We extend the BMS(4) group by adding logarithmic supertranslations. This is done by relaxing the boundary conditions on the metric and its conjugate momentum at spatial infinity in order to allow logarithmic terms of carefully designed form…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-22 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

We focus on black branes and toroidal black holes in N=2 gauged supergravities that asymptote to AdS_4, and derive formulas for the mass and central charge densities. We derive the corresponding BPS bound from the superalgebra of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Kiril Hristov , Chiara Toldo , Stefan Vandoren

We show that the asymptotic charges associated with Lorentz symmetries on past and future null infinity match in the limit to spatial infinity in a class of asymptotically-flat spacetimes. These are spacetimes that obey the Ashtekar-Hansen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Kartik Prabhu , Ibrahim Shehzad

Hypertranslations and hyperrotations are asymptotic symmetries of flat space, on top of the familiar supertranslations and superrotations. They were discovered in arXiv:2205.01422 by working in the Special Double Null (SDN) gauge, where…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-12 Chethan Krishnan , Jude Pereira

A consistent set of asymptotic conditions for the simplest supergravity theory without cosmological constant in three dimensions is proposed. The canonical generators associated to the asymptotic symmetries are shown to span a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Glenn Barnich , Laura Donnay , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

When studying gauge theories in the presence of boundaries, local symmetry transformations are typically classified as gauge or physical depending on whether the associated charges vanish or not. Here, we propose that physical charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-12 Luca Ciambelli , Marc Geiller

We investigate the asymptotic symmetries of General Relativity at spatial infinity within the first-order formalism described by the Holst action. Employing the covariant phase space method, we propose a set of relaxed boundary conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Sepideh Bakhoda , Hongguang Liu

We consider the most general asymptotically flat boundary conditions in three-dimensional Einstein gravity in the sense that we allow for the maximal number of independent free functions in the metric, leading to six towers of boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-24 Daniel Grumiller , Wout Merbis , Max Riegler

We investigate the charges and fluxes that can occur in higher-order Abelian gauge theories defined on compact space-time manifolds with boundary. The boundary is necessary to supply a destination to the electric lines of force emanating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Marcos Alvarez , David I. Olive

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

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

A new local, covariant ``counter-term'' is used to construct a variational principle for asymptotically flat spacetimes in any spacetime dimension $ d \ge 4$. The new counter-term makes direct contact with more familiar background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert B. Mann , Donald Marolf

We carry out in full generality and without fixing specific boundary conditions, the symmetry and charge analysis near a generic null surface for two and three dimensional (2d and 3d) gravity theories. In 2d and 3d there are respectively…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 H. Adami , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , V. Taghiloo , H. Yavartanoo , C. Zwikel

We continue the analysis of BPS bounds started in arXiv:1110.2688, extending it to the full class of N=2 gauged supergravity theories with arbitrary vector and hypermultiplets. We derive the general form of the asymptotic charges for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Kiril Hristov

The asymptotic group of symmetries at null infinity of flat spacetimes in three and four dimensions is the infinite dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. This has recently been shown to be isomorphic to non-relativistic conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-05 Arjun Bagchi , Reza Fareghbal

We explicitly show how the field dependent 2-cocycle that arises in the current algebra of 4 dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes can be used as a central extension to turn the BMS4 Lie algebra, or more precisely, the BMS4 action Lie…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-28 Glenn Barnich

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

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

The calculation of conserved charges of black holes is a rich problem, for which many methods are known. Until recently, there was some controversy on the proper definition of conserved charges in asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) spaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Ella Jamsin

We analyse the asymptotic symmetries of Maxwell theory at spatial infinity through the Hamiltonian formalism. Precise, consistent boundary conditions are explicitly given and shown to be invariant under asymptotic angle-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert