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We study the covariant phase space of vacuum general relativity at the null boundary of causal diamonds. The past and future components of such a null boundary each have an infinite-dimensional symmetry algebra consisting of diffeomorphisms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-12 Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Kartik Prabhu

In this work we give a complete picture of how to in a direct simple way define the mass at null infinity in harmonic coordinates in three different ways that we show satisfy the Bondi mass loss law. The first and second way involve only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Lili He , Hans Lindblad

There are two important statements regarding the Trautman-Bondi mass [1,8,5] at null infinity: one is the positivity [7,6], and the other is the Bondi mass loss formula [1], which are both global in nature. The positivity of the quasi-local…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-08-23 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

In this work, a null geometric approach to the Brown-York quasilocal formalism is used to derive an integral law that describes the rate of change of mass and/or radiative energy escaping through a dynamical horizon of a non-stationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Albert Huber

There are two important statements regarding the Trautman-Bondi mass at null infinity: one is the positivity, and the other is the Bondi mass loss formula, which are both global in nature. In this note, we compute the limit of the Wang-Yau…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-23 Po-Ning Chen , Mu-Tao Wang , Ye-Kai Wang , Shing-Tung Yau

The Hamiltonian analysis for a 3-dimensional connection dynamics of $\frak{so}(1,2)$, spanned by $\{L_{-+},L_{-2},L_{+2}\}$ instead of $\{L_{01}, L_{02}, L_{12}\}$, is first conducted in a Bondi-like coordinate system. The symmetry of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Chao-Guang Huang , Shi-Bei Kong

We study asymptotically flat space-times in 3 dimensions for Einstein gravity near future null infinity and show that the boundary is described by Carrollian geometry. This is used to add sources to the BMS gauge corresponding to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-06 Jelle Hartong

We derive the Hamiltonian for general semi-classical 2D dilaton gravity, beginning with the complete action including the Polyakov action and Gibbons-Hawking-York boundary term. The value of the Hamiltonian yields a generalized Brown-York…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Jonathan Barenboim , Andrei V. Frolov , Gabor Kunstatter

We consider Bondi's radiating metric in the context of the teleparallel equivalent of general relativity (TEGR). This metric describes the asymptotic form of a radiating solution of Einstein's equations. The total gravitational energy for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

We give a general geometric definition of asymptotic flatness at null infinity in $d$-dimensional general relativity ($d$ even) within the framework of conformal infinity. Our definition is arrived at via an analysis of linear perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefan Hollands , Akihiro Ishibashi

The ``standard'' expressions for total energy, linear momentum and also angular momentum of asymptotically flat Bondi metrics at null infinity are also obtained from differential conservation laws on asymptotically flat backgrounds, derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph Katz , Dorit Lerer

The Hamiltonian for a gravitating region includes a boundary term which determines not only the quasi-local values but also, via the boundary variation principle, the boundary conditions. Using our covariant Hamiltonian formalism, we found…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 Chiang-Mei Chen , James M. Nester , Roh-Suan Tung

The energy--momentum radiated in gravitational waves by an isolated source is given by a formula of Bondi. This formula is highly non--local: the energy--momentum is not given as the integral of a well--defined local density. It has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Adam D. Helfer

An exact invariant is derived for $n$-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian systems with general time-dependent potentials. The invariant is worked out in two equivalent ways. In the first approach, we define a special {\it Ansatz\/} for the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-03-23 Jürgen Struckmeier , Claus Riedel

The Bondi-Sachs formalism of General Relativity is a metric-based treatment of the Einstein equations in which the coordinates are adapted to the null geodesics of the spacetime. It provided the first convincing evidence that gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-18 Thomas Mädler , Jeffrey Winicour

In a vacuum spacetime equipped with the Bondi's radiating metric which is asymptotically flat at spatial infinity including gravitational radiation ({\bf Condition D}), we establish the relation between the ADM total energy-momentum and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Wen-ling Huang , Xiao Zhang

We present a detailed analysis of gravity in a partial Bondi gauge, where only the three conditions $g_{rr}=0=g_{rA}$ are fixed. We relax in particular the so-called determinant condition on the transverse metric, which is only assumed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 Marc Geiller , Céline Zwikel

Inspired by interaction of gravitational waves and dark matters, we study the Bondi-Sachs formalism for Einstein massless scalar field with zero cosmological constant. We provide asymptotic expansions for the Bondi-Sachs metrics as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jialue Li , Xiao Zhang

We present the first numerical simulations of asymptotically flat space-times whose computational domain includes past and future null-infinity. As an application, we explore the scattering of a gravitational wave in a black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-04 Jörg Frauendiener , Chris Stevens , Sebenele Thwala

We exhibit a Hamiltonian formulation, both for electromagnetism and gravitation, in which it is not required that the Bondi "news" vanish, but only that the incoming news be equal to the outgoing ones. This requirement is implemented by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Claudio Bunster , Andrés Gomberoff , Alfredo Pérez