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We construct the phase space of 3-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes that forms the bulk metric representation of the BMS group consisting of both supertranslations and superrotations. The asymptotic symmetry group is a unique copy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-25 Geoffrey Compère , Adrien Fiorucci

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

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

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 consider three dimensional $N=4$ flat supergravity, with an abelian R-symmetry enhancing the gravitational phase space. We obtain the field configuration whose asymptotic symmetries at null infinity coincide with the centrally extended…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-09 Nabamita Banerjee , Ivano Lodato , Turmoli Neogi

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

BMS symmetries have been attracting a great deal of interest in recent years. Originally discovered as being the symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetime geometries at null infinity in General Relativity, BMS symmetries have also been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Daddy Balondo Iyela , Jan Govaerts

This is a review of selected topics from recent work on symmetry charges in asymptotically flat spacetime done by the author in collaboration with U. Kol and R. Javadinezhad. First we reinterpret the reality constraint on the boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-18 M. Porrati

The asymptotically flat structure of $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supergravity in three spacetime dimensions is explored. The asymptotic symmetries are spanned by an extension of the super-BMS$_3$ algebra, with two independent $\hat{u}(1)$ currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

We explore the holographic principle in the context of asymptotically flat spacetimes. In analogy with the AdS/CFT scenario we analyse the asympotically symmetry group of this class of spacetimes, the so called Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Giovanni Arcioni , Claudio Dappiaggi

We show that the non-linear BMS$_5$ symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat Einstein gravity in five dimensions, as well as the super-BMS$_4$ superalgebra of asymptotically flat supergravity, can be redefined so as to take a direct sum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-15 Oscar Fuentealba , Marc Henneaux

We construct the characters for the highest weight representations of the 3d Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS$_3$) algebra. We then use these to construct the partition function and show how to use BMS modular transformations to obtain a density of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-26 Arjun Bagchi , Amartya Saha , Zodinmawia

We study $N=(2,4,8)$ supersymmetric extensions of the three dimensional BMS algebra (BMS$_3$) with most generic possible central extensions. We find that $N$-extended supersymmetric BMS$_3$ algebras can be derived by a suitable contraction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-16 Nabamita Banerjee , Dileep P. Jatkar , Ivano Lodato , Sunil Mukhi , Turmoli Neogi

The symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in four dimensions in the sense of Newman and Unti is revisited. As in the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs gauge, it is shown to be isomorphic to the direct sum of the abelian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-24 Glenn Barnich , Pierre-Henry Lambert

We probe the contraction from $2d$ relativistic CFTs to theories with Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) symmetries, or equivalently Conformal Carroll symmetries, using diagnostics of quantum chaos. Starting from an Ultrarelativistic limit on a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-04 Aritra Banerjee , Arpan Bhattacharyya , Priya Drashni , Srinidhi Pawar

We elaborate on the proposal of flat holography in which four-dimensional physics is encoded in two-dimensional celestial conformal field theory (CCFT). The symmetry underlying CCFT is the extended BMS symmetry of (asymptotically) flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Angelos Fotopoulos , Stephan Stieberger , Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We consider two possible flat space limits of three dimensional $\mathcal{N} = (1,1)$ AdS supergravity. They differ by how the supercharges are scaled with the AdS radius $\ell$: the first limit (democratic) leads to the usual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-02 Ivano Lodato , Wout Merbis

For asymptotically flat spacetimes, a conjecture by Strominger states that asymptotic BMS-supertranslations and their associated charges at past null infinity $\mathscr{I}^{-}$ can be related to those at future null infinity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Mariem Magdy , Kartik Prabhu , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

Isolated objects in asymptotically flat spacetimes in general relativity are characterized by their conserved charges associated with the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group. These charges include total energy, linear momentum, intrinsic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Éanna É. Flanagan , David A. Nichols

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