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We study properties of boundary conditions (BCs) in theories with categorical (or non-invertible) symmetries. We describe how the transformation properties, or (generalized) charges, of BCs are captured by topological BCs of Symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Lakshya Bhardwaj , Christian Copetti , Daniel Pajer , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

The gravitational charge algebra of generic asymptotically locally (A)dS spacetimes is derived in $n$ dimensions. The analysis is performed in the Starobinsky/Fefferman-Graham gauge, without assuming any further boundary condition than the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Adrien Fiorucci , Romain Ruzziconi

An interesting question is to characterize the general class of allowed boundary conditions for gauge theories, including gravity, at spatial and null infinity. This has played a role in discussions of soft charges, where antipodal symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Steven B. Giddings

E. Noether's general analysis of conservation laws has to be completed in a Lagrangian theory with local gauge invariance. Bulk charges are replaced by fluxes of superpotentials. Gauge invariant bulk charges may subsist when distinguished…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Julia , S. Silva

This thesis deals with the construction of conserved charges for asymptotically flat spacetimes at spatial infinity in four spacetime dimensions in a hopefully pedagogical way. As a first motivation of this work, it highlights the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-20 François Dehouck

Recently, Ciambelli, Leigh, and Pai (CLP) [arXiv:2111.13181] have shown that nonzero charges integrating Hamilton's equation can be defined for all diffeomorphisms acting near the boundary of a subregion in a gravitational theory. This is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-13 Antony J. Speranza

We describe symmetry structure of a general singular theory (theory with constraints in the Hamiltonian formulation), and, in particular, we relate the structure of gauge transformations with the constraint structure. We show that any…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Gitman , I. V. Tyutin

Superpotentials offer a direct means of calculating conserved charges associated with the asymptotic symmetries of space-time. Yet superpotentials have been plagued with inconsistencies, resulting in nonphysical or incongruent values for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-18 Gideon I. Livshits

Charges associated with gauge symmetries are defined on boundaries of spacetimes. But these constructions typically involve divergent quantities when considering asymptotic boundaries. Different prescriptions exist to address this problem,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-07 Robert McNees , Céline Zwikel

We construct a quasi-local formalism for conserved charges in a theory of gravity in the presence of matter fields which may have slow falloff behaviors at the asymptotic infinity. This construction depends only on equations of motion and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Seungjoon Hyun , Jaehoon Jeong , Sang-A Park , Sang-Heon Yi

Since the proposal of the AdS/CFT correspondence, made by Maldacena and Witten, there has been some controversy about the definition of conserved Noether charges associated to asymptotic isometries in asymptotically AdS spacetimes, namely,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Pedro Lauridsen Ribeiro

We study conserved charges of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity formulated as a constrained BF theory based on the $\OSp(1|4)$ superalgebra. Using the covariant phase space formalism, we derive bulk and boundary contributions to the symplectic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Remigiusz Durka , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Rene Payne

Gravity in $4d$ asymptotically flat spacetime constitutes the archetypal example of a gravitational system with leaky boundary conditions. Pursuing our analysis of [1], we argue that the holographic description of such a system requires the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-03 Laura Donnay , Adrien Fiorucci , Yannick Herfray , Romain Ruzziconi

We prove that non-extremal black holes in four-dimensional general relativity exhibit an infinite-dimensional symmetry in their near horizon region. By prescribing a physically sensible set of boundary conditions at the horizon, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-25 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernán A. González , Miguel Pino

We show that the asymptotic charges associated with Lorentz symmetries on past and future null infinity match in the limit to spatial infinity in a class of asymptotically-flat spacetimes. These are spacetimes that obey the Ashtekar-Hansen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-08 Kartik Prabhu , Ibrahim Shehzad

We propose novel asymptotically locally flat boundary conditions for Einstein Gravity without cosmological constant in four dimensions that are consistent with the variational principle. They allow for complex solutions that are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-31 Nishant Gupta , Partha Paul , Nemani V. Suryanarayana

We use a covariant phase space formalism to give a general prescription for defining Hamiltonian generators of bosonic and fermionic symmetries in diffeomorphism invariant theories, such as supergravities. A simple and general criterion is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Hollands , Donald Marolf

We analyse the asymptotic symmetries of Maxwell theory at spatial infinity through the Hamiltonian formalism. Precise, consistent boundary conditions are explicitly given and shown to be invariant under asymptotic angle-dependent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-30 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

Conserved charges in theories with gauge symmetries are supported on codimension-2 surfaces in the bulk spacetime. It has recently been suggested that various classical formulations of gravity dynamics display different symmetries, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-17 Luca Ciambelli , Robert G. Leigh

We carry out a parallel study of the covariant phase space and the conservation laws of local symmetries in two-dimensional dilaton gravity. Our analysis is based on the fact that the Lagrangian can be brought to a form that vanishes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Navarro-Salas , M. Navarro , C. F. Talavera