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In this paper, we investigate a three-dimensional gravitational model known as Minimal Massive Gravity (MMG), which includes an auxiliary field, using the covariant phase space method. Our analysis reveals the presence of three gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-24 Kang Liu , Xiao-Mei Kuang

We show that we can combine the (complex, self-dual) BMS vector fields with the recently defined BMS twistors to obtain a new supersymmetric extension of the BMS symmetries at null infinity. We compare our construction to other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-29 Kartik Prabhu

The two-dimensional super-BMS$_{3}$ invariant theory dual to three-dimensional asymptotically flat $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity is constructed. It is described by a constrained or gauged chiral Wess-Zumino-Witten action based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-30 Glenn Barnich , Laura Donnay , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

Surface-charge algebra associated with BMS$_4$ symmetry on the null infinity of asymptotically flat spacetime is studied via the Hamiltonian framework. A coordinate system, where boundaries of constant-time hypersurfaces cross the null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Ippei Fujisawa , Ryuichi Nakayama

Starting from the asymptotic kinematics of massless scalar fields near null infinity in any spacetime dimension, we build two higher-spin extensions of the Carrollian definition of the BMS group and its generalisations. The first extension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 Xavier Bekaert , Blagoje Oblak

In this work, we present a systematic classification of supersymmetric extensions of the BMS$_4$ algebra and their realizations in free field theories. By requiring that supercharges admit finite-dimensional subsectors, we identify ten…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu-fan Zheng

It has been argued that the symmetries of gravity at null infinity should include a Diff$(S^2)$ factor associated to diffeomorphisms on the celestial sphere. However, the standard phase space of gravity does not support the action of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Miguel Campiglia , Javier Peraza

Corresponding to the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetry algebra of asymptotically-flat spacetimes are a set of BMS charges. These are formally constructed via the symplectic formalism of Wald and Zoupas, but the same charge expression may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-28 Alex Goodenbour

We consider a recently proposed extension of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs algebra to include arbitrary infinitesimal diffeomorphisms on a (2)-sphere. To realize this extended algebra as asymptotic symmetries, we work with an extended class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-06 Éanna É. Flanagan , Kartik Prabhu , Ibrahim Shehzad

We show that the BMS-supertranslations and their associated supermomenta on past null infinity can be related to those on future null infinity, proving the conjecture of Strominger for a class of spacetimes which are asymptotically-flat in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 Kartik Prabhu

We study the asymptotic symmetries of Einstein gravity in flat space. Instead of Bondi gauge, we work with the recently introduced special double null gauge, in which $\mathscr{I}^{+}$ and $\mathscr{I}^{-}$ are approached along null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Chethan Krishnan , Jude Pereira

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

In this paper we establish a relation between the non-linearly conserved Newman-Penrose charges and certain subleading terms in a large-$r$ expansion of the BMS charges in an asymptotically-flat spacetime. We define the subleading BMS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Hadi Godazgar , Mahdi Godazgar , C. N. Pope

We show that when the Wald-Zoupas prescription is implemented, the resulting charges realize the BMS symmetry algebra without any 2-cocycle nor central extension, at any cut of future null infinity. We refine the covariance prescription for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Antoine Rignon-Bret , Simone Speziale

We propose an extension of the BMS group, which we refer to as Weyl BMS or BMSW for short, that includes, besides super-translations, local Weyl rescalings and arbitrary diffeomorphisms of the 2d sphere metric. After generalizing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-02 Laurent Freidel , Roberto Oliveri , Daniele Pranzetti , Simone Speziale

We propose a solution to a classic problem in gravitational physics consisting of defining the spin associated with asymptotically-flat spacetimes. We advocate that the correct asymptotic symmetry algebra to approach this problem is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-16 Laurent Freidel , Seyed Faroogh Moosavian , Daniele Pranzetti

The free graviton theory given by linearising Einstein's theory has a dual formulation in terms of a dual graviton field. The dual graviton theory has two gauge invariances giving rise to two conserved charges, while the ADM charges of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-07 Chris Hull , Ulf Lindström , Maxwell L. Velásquez Cotini Hutt

We supplement the recently found dual gravitational charges with dual charges for the whole BMS symmetry algebra. Furthermore, we extend the dual charges away from null infinity, defining subleading dual charges. These subleading dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Hadi Godazgar , Mahdi Godazgar , C. N. Pope

The extended BMS group includes supertranslation, dual supertranslation and Lorentz transformations. The generators of these symmetries can be classified according to their parity into "electric" and "magnetic" types. Using a multipole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 Uri Kol

This paper studies the asymptotic gauge charges of the Curtright mixed-symmetry rank-3 field $\phi_{[\rho\sigma]\nu}$ in Minkowski spacetime, interpreted in $ D = 5 $ as the dual graviton. In Bondi coordinates at future null infinity, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-28 Federico Manzoni