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We define spacetimes that are asymptotically flat, except for a deficit solid angle $\alpha$, and present a definition of their ``ADM'' mass, which is finite for this class of spacetimes, and, in particular, coincides with the value of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ulises Nucamendi , Daniel Sudarsky

The Spi framework provides a 4-dimensional approach to investigate the asymptotic properties of gravitational fields as one recedes from isolated systems in any space-like direction, without reference to a Cauchy surface. It is well suited…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-13 Abhay Ashtekar , Neev Khera

It is natural to regulate an infinite-sized system by imposing a boundary condition at finite distance, placing the system in a "box." This breaks symmetries, though the breaking is small when the box is large. One should thus be able to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 Tomas Andrade , Donald Marolf

We present an axially symmetric, asymptotically flat empty space solution of the Einstein field equations containing a naked singularity. The spacetime is regular everywhere except on the symmetry axis where it possess a true curvature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Debojit Sarma , Faizuddin Ahmed , Mahadev Patgiri

We describe asymptotic symmetries at spatial infinity of asymptotically flat spacetimes within the context of a generalization of the Beig-Schmidt-Ashtekar-Romano-framework. We demonstrate that it is possible to relax certain smoothness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Sharad Mishra , Kinjal Banerjee , Jishnu Bhattacharyya

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

The homogeneous and isotropic radiation dominated universe, following the inflationary stage, is expressed as a spherically symmetric and inhomogeneous spacetime upon a power law type conformal transformation of the null (cosmological)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-24 Sujoy K. Modak

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

The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs-van der Burg (BMS) group is the asymptotic symmetry group of radiating asymptotically flat spacetimes. It has recently received renewed interest in the context of the flat holography and the infrared structure of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-07 Romain Ruzziconi

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

In this article we address the question of asymptotic symmetry of massless scalar field at null infinity. We slightly generalize notion of asymptotic symmetry in order to make sense for the theory without gauge symmetry. Derivations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Dejan Simić

We extend the Bondi formalism to describe asymptotically-flat spacetimes where the outgoing null geodesic congruence is not hypersurface-orthogonal, i.e. has non-vanishing twist. In the Newman-Penrose formulation, the twist…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Marc Geiller , Pujian Mao , Antoine Vincenti

We recently described a cosmological quantum spacetime of vanishing spatial curvature, which can be considered as background for the IKKT matrix model, assuming that the resulting gauge theory couples weakly. Building on this example, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Christian Gaß , Harold C. Steinacker

We revisit Type IIB supergravity backgrounds with null and spacelike singularities with natural gauge theory duals proposed in {\tt hep-th/0602107} and {\tt hep-th/0610053}. We show that for these backgrounds there are always choices of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Adel Awad , Sumit R. Das , K. Narayan , Sandip P. Trivedi

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 discuss some recent results in the quest to implement the holographic principle in asymptotically flat spacetimes. In particular we introduce the key ingredients of the candidate dual theory which lives at null infinity and it is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Dappiaggi

After a review of symmetries and classical solutions involved in the AdS3/CFT2 correspondence, we apply a similar analysis to asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in 3 and 4 dimensions. In the spirit of two dimensional conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Glenn Barnich , Cedric Troessaert

We study null hypersurfaces approaching null infinity in asymptotically flat spacetimes within the Bondi-Sachs gauge. The null Raychaudhuri constraint is shown to asymptote to the Bondi mass-loss formula, interpreted as a stress tensor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Luca Ciambelli

We prove global stability for the Charge-Scalar Field system on a background spacetime which is close to $1+3$-dimensional Minkowski space and whose outward light cones converge to those for the Schwarzschild metric at null infinity. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-09-02 Christopher Kauffman

Four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes have been central to recent developments in infrared physics. Gravitational waves reaching the asymptotic boundary reveal an infinite-dimensional symmetry group known as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-19 Florian Girelli , Jianhui Qiu , Céline Zwikel