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It is well-known that unlike space-like and time-like hypersurfaces, null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds do not naturally inherit an affine connection from the spacetime in which they are embedded. On the other hand, recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Samuel Blitz , Gabriel Herczeg , David McNutt

We argue that generic field theories defined on null manifolds should have an emergent BMS or conformal Carrollian structure. We then focus on a simple interacting conformal Carrollian theory, viz. Carrollian scalar electrodynamics. We look…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-18 Arjun Bagchi , Rudranil Basu , Aditya Mehra , Poulami Nandi

The isomorphism between the (extended) BMS$_4$ algebra and the $1+2$D Carrollian conformal algebra hints towards a co-dimension one formalism of flat holography with the field theory residing on the null-boundary of the asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Amartya Saha

A class of free quantum fields defined on the Poincare' group, is described by means of their two-point vacuum expectation values. They are not equivalent to fields defined on the Minkowski spacetime and they are "elementary" in the sense…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 M. Toller

Assuming the existence of a field theory in D dimensions dual to (D+1)-dimensional flat space, governed by the asymptotic symmetries of flat space, we make some preliminary remarks about the properties of this field theory. We review…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Arjun Bagchi , Rudranil Basu , Ashish Kakkar , Aditya Mehra

In an earlier paper we have constructed a basis of massless single particle quantum states which transform in the unitary principal series representation of the four dimensional Lorentz group. The S-matrix written in this basis gives rise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Shamik Banerjee

In holography, the isometry group of the bulk spacetime corresponds to the symmetries of the boundary theory. We thus approach the question of whether (and when) scale invariance in combination with Poincar\'e invariance implies full…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-10 Lavish Chawla , Mario Flory

We investigate anisotropic conformal Carroll field theories and their holographic duals. On the field theory side, we focus on the case with scaling exponent $z=0$ in two and three spacetime dimensions. These theories exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Emilie Despontin , Stephane Detournay , Sudipta Dutta , Dima Fontaine

In these lecture notes, a group-theoretical introduction to BMS symmetries is provided in a self-contained manner. More precisely, all definitions and structures are purely based on geometrical and group-theoretical notions defined at null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-16 Xavier Bekaert , Yannick Herfray , Lea Mele , Noémie Parrini

In this note, we discuss the bulk reconstruction of massless free fields in flat space from the highest-weight representation of boundary Carrollian conformal field theory (CCFT). We expand the bulk field as a sum of infinite descendants of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-12 Bin Chen , Zezhou Hu

This thesis explores several facets of Carroll symmetries through their applications to field theories and gravity. The geometric description of curved Carroll manifolds is developed from a Cartan-geometric viewpoint, reviewed at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Florian Ecker

Recent attempts at the construction of holography for asymptotically flat spacetimes have taken two different routes. Celestial holography, involving a two dimensional (2d) CFT dual to 4d Minkowski spacetime, has generated novel results in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-29 Arjun Bagchi , Shamik Banerjee , Rudranil Basu , Sudipta Dutta

In recent years the idea that not only the configuration space of particles, i.e. spacetime, but also the corresponding momentum space may have nontrivial geometry has attracted significant attention, especially in the context of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-28 Jakub Mielczarek , Tomasz Trzesniewski

If holography is an equivalence between quantum theories, one might expect it to be described by a map that is a bijective isometry between bulk and boundary Hilbert spaces, preserving the hamiltonian and symmetries. Holography has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Steven B. Giddings

We explicitly express the Minkowski vacuum of a massless scalar field in terms of the particle notion associated with suitable spherical conformal killing fields. These fields are orthogonal to the light wavefronts originating from a sphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-20 Alejandro Perez , Salvatore Ribisi

We classify and relate unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of the Carroll and dipole groups, i.e., we define elementary quantum Carroll and fracton particles and establish a correspondence between them. Whenever possible, we express…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 José Figueroa-O'Farrill , Alfredo Pérez , Stefan Prohazka

We show that a holographic description of four-dimensional asymptotically locally flat spacetimes is reached smoothly from the zero-cosmological-constant limit of anti-de Sitter holography. To this end, we use the derivative expansion of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-12 Luca Ciambelli , Charles Marteau , Anastasios C. Petkou , P. Marios Petropoulos , Konstantinos Siampos

We show that a $3d$ sourced conformal Carrollian field theory has the right kinematic properties to holographically describe gravity in $4d$ asymptotically flat spacetime. The external sources encode the leaks of gravitational radiation at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-31 Laura Donnay , Adrien Fiorucci , Yannick Herfray , Romain Ruzziconi

We argue that the flat spacetime with inexact quantum mechanics in it is dual to the de Sitter spacetime with exact quantum mechanics in it, and the positive cosmological constant of this de Sitter spacetime is in the second order of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Eiji Konishi

In the present paper we review in a fibre bundle context the covariant and massless canonical representations of the Poincare' group as well as certain unitary representations of the conformal group (in 4 dimensions). We give a simplified…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fernando Lledo