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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 study conserved charges of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity formulated as a constrained BF theory based on the $\OSp(1|4)$ superalgebra. Using the covariant phase space formalism, we derive bulk and boundary contributions to the symplectic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Remigiusz Durka , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Rene Payne

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

We classify the Lagrangians and anomalies of an extended BMS field theory using BRST methods. To do so, we establish an intrinsic gauge-fixing procedure for the geometric data, which allows us to derive the extended BMS symmetries and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Laurent Baulieu , Luca Ciambelli , Tom Wetzstein

In this paper we consider a generally covariant theory of gravity, and extend the generalized off-shell ADT current such that it becomes conserved for field dependent (asymptotically) Killing vector field. Then we define the extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 M. R. Setare , H. Adami

I revisit the calculation of infinite-dimensional symmetries that emerge in the vicinity of isolated horizons. I focus the attention on extremal black holes, for which the isometry algebra that preserves a sensible set of asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Gaston Giribet

The asymptotic structure of gravity in $D=6$ spacetime dimensions is described at spatial infinity in the asymptotically flat context through Hamiltonian (ADM) methods. Special focus is given on the BMS supertranslation subgroup. It is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-21 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux

Gravitational-wave data is gauge dependent. While we can restrict the class of gauges in which such data may be expressed, there will still be an infinite-dimensional group of transformations allowed while remaining in this class, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Michael Boyle

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

A canonical realization of the BMS (Bondi-Metzner-Sachs) algebra is given on the phase space of the classical real Klein-Gordon field . By assuming the finiteness of the generators of the Poincar\'e group, it is shown that a countable set…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 G. Longhi , M. Materassi

BMS+ transformations act nontrivially on outgoing gravitational scattering data while preserving intrinsic structure at future null infinity (I+). BMS- transformations similarly act on ingoing data at past null infinity (I-). In this paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Andrew Strominger

We report on investigations of local (and non-local) charges in bosonic and supersymmetric principal chiral models in 1+1 dimensions. In the bosonic PCM there is a classically conserved local charge for each symmetric invariant tensor of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Evans , M. Hassan , N. J. MacKay , A. J. Mountain

This work provides a smooth and everywhere well-defined extension of Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) supertranslations into the bulk of Minkowski space. The supertranslations lead to physically distinct spacetimes, all isometric to Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-20 Friedrich Schöller

In the near-horizon region, black holes exhibit an infinite-dimensional symmetry reminiscent of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) supertranslations. The conserved charges associated with this symmetry can be computed in gravitational theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Mariano Chernicoff , Gaston Giribet , Julio Oliva

We derive the antipodal matching relations used to demonstrate the equivalence between soft graviton theorems and BMS charge conservation across spatial infinity. To this end we provide a precise map between Bondi data at null infinity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Federico Capone , Kevin Nguyen , Enrico Parisini

The surface charge algebra of generic asymptotically locally (A)dS$_4$ spacetimes without matter is derived without assuming any boundary conditions. Surface charges associated with Weyl rescalings are vanishing while the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Geoffrey Compère , Adrien Fiorucci , Romain Ruzziconi

We reexamine the issue of the soliton mass in two-dimensional models with N =1 supersymmetry. The superalgebra has a central extension, and at the classical level the soliton solution preserves 1/2 of supersymmetry which is equivalent to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Shifman , A. Vainshtein , M. Voloshin

We analyze the residual gauge freedom in gravity, in four dimensions, in the light-cone gauge, in a formulation where unphysical fields are integrated out. By checking the invariance of the light-cone Hamiltonian, we obtain a set of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Sudarshan Ananth , Lars Brink , Sucheta Majumdar

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

To study quantum gravity in asymptotically flat spacetimes, one would like to understand the algebra of observables at null infinity. Here we show that the Bondi mass cannot be observed in finite retarded time, and so is not contained in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-07 Raphael Bousso , Venkatesa Chandrasekaran , Illan F. Halpern , Aron C. Wall