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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

We propose a consistent set of boundary conditions for gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime at spacelike infinity, which yields an enhancement of the Bondi-Metzner Sachs group with smooth superrotations and new subleading symmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Adrien Fiorucci , Javier Matulich , Romain Ruzziconi

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 investigate the asymptotic symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes at spatial infinity. We propose a new symplectic structure and conservative boundary conditions in a polyhomogeneous Beig-Schmidt expansion. The asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-11 Florian Girelli , Simon Langenscheidt , Giulio Neri , Christopher Pollack , Celine Zwikel

We propose a formula relating scattering S-matrix amplitudes to correlators of a conformal field theory. The proposal implements a flat limit of the field theory, providing an indirect microscopic description of gravitational theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 Eliot Hijano

A recently developed n-particle scattering theory for wedge-local quantum field theories is applied to a class of models described and constructed by Grosse, Lechner, Buchholz, and Summers. In the BLS-deformation setting we establish…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Maximilian Duell , Wojciech Dybalski

New boundary conditions for asymptotically flat spacetimes are given at spatial infinity. These boundary conditions are invariant under the BMS group, which acts non trivially. The boundary conditions fulfill all standard consistency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-18 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

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

Symmetries compatible with asymptotic flatness and admitting gravitational and electromagnetic radiation are studied by using the Bondi-Sachs-van der Burg formalism. It is shown that in axially symmetric electrovacuum spacetimes in which at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Bicak , A. Pravdova

This article begins with a brief introduction to numerical relativity aimed at readers who have a background in applied mathematics but not necessarily in general relativity. I then introduce and summarise my work on the problem of treating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-29 Oliver Rinne

Gravitational radiation plays an important role in astrophysics. Based on the fact that our universe is expanding, the gravitational radiation when a positive cosmological constant is presented has been studied along with two different ways…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-28 Xiaokai He , Jiliang Jing , Zhoujian Cao

By extending Ashtekar and Romano's definition of spacelike infinity to the timelike direction, a new definition of asymptotic flatness at timelike infinity for an isolated system with a source is proposed. The treatment provides unit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Uchida Gen , Tetsuya Shiromizu

Penrose's idea of asymptotic flatness provides a framework for understanding the asymptotic structure of gravitational fields of isolated systems at null infinity. However, the studies of the asymptotic behaviour of fields near spatial…

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

Shear-free or asymptotically shear-free null geodesic congruences possess a large number of fascinating geometric properties and to be closely related, in the context of general relativity, to a variety of physically significant affects. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 T. M. Adamo , E. T. Newman , C. N. Kozameh

Using a set of field equations in the null surface formulation we obtain the linearized coupling between the gravitational and matter fields. We first derive a formula for the metric of the space time and then we use this formula to study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-25 Carlos N. Kozameha , Emmanuel A. Tassone

This paper is the fourth in a series dedicated to the mathematically rigorous asymptotic analysis of gravitational radiation under astrophysically realistic setups. It provides an overview of the physical ideas involved in setting up the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-20 Lionor Kehrberger

The construction of a theory of quantum gravity is an outstanding problem that can benefit from better understanding the laws of nature that are expected to hold in regimes currently inaccessible to experiment. Such fundamental laws can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Friedrich Schöller

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

The asymptotic symmetry group (ASG) at future null infinity (I^+) of four-dimensional de Sitter spacetimes is defined and shown to be given by the group of three-dimensional diffeomorphisms acting on I^+. Finite charges are constructed for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-22 Dionysios Anninos , Gim Seng Ng , Andrew Strominger

The asymptotic charges of spin-1 and spin-2 fields are studied near spatial infinity. We evaluate the charges at the critical sets where spatial infinity meets null infinity with the aim of finding the relation between the charges at future…

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