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We determine the asymptotic symmetry group of Killing horizons by choosing Gaussian null coordinates in the neighbourhood of the horizon and boundary conditions that respect the leading order terms in the metric. The analysis divides…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Emil T. Akhmedov , Mahdi Godazgar

A detailed description of how black holes grow in full, non-linear general relativity is presented. The starting point is the notion of dynamical horizons. Expressions of fluxes of energy and angular momentum carried by gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Badri Krishnan

Black hole thermodynamics in Lorentz-violating gravity is subtle because different excitations propagate at different speeds and hence identify different causal horizons. We revisit Einstein--AEther gravity using the covariant phase space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Walter Arata , Stefano Liberati , Giulio Neri

We develop basic tools and matching conditions to interpolate between asymptotic and near horizon symmetries. We focus on black holes in three dimensions. In particular, we match Brown--Henneaux boundary conditions at infinity, which yields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 D. Grumiller , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , C. Troessaert , R. Wutte

Previous work on black hole partition functions and entanglement entropy suggests the existence of "edge" degrees of freedom living on the (stretched) horizon. We identify a local and "shrinkable" boundary condition on the stretched horizon…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-01 Adam Ball , Y. T. Albert Law , Gabriel Wong

We obtain the spectra of codimension-2 horizon "edge" degrees of freedom for gravity and higher-spin gauge fields in de Sitter space and in the static Nariai spacetime, advancing previous Lorentzian and Euclidean analyses of one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-15 Y. T. Albert Law , Varun Lochab

We establish a class of area-angular momentum-charge inequalities satisfied by stable marginally outer trapped surfaces in 5-dimensional minimal supergravity which admit a $U(1)^2$ symmetry. A novel feature is the fact that such surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-27 Aghil Alaee , Marcus Khuri , Hari Kunduri

The covariant phase space method of Iyer, Lee, Wald, and Zoupas gives an elegant way to understand the Hamiltonian dynamics of Lagrangian field theories without breaking covariance. The original literature however does not systematically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Daniel Harlow , Jie-qiang Wu

We show that the asymptotic symmetries close to nonextremal black hole horizons are generated by an extension of supertranslations. This group is generated by a semidirect sum of Virasoro and Abelian currents. The charges associated with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-09 Laura Donnay , Gaston Giribet , Hernan A. Gonzalez , Miguel Pino

This paper studies the reduced phase space formulation (relational formalism) of gravity coupling to the Brown-Kucha\v r dust for asymptotic flat spacetimes. A set of boundary conditions for the asymptotic flatness are formulated for Dirac…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-08 Muxin Han , Zichang Huang , Hongwei Tan

We compute the full asymptotic symmetry group of black holes belonging to the same equivalence class of solutions within the Conformal Weyl Gravity formalism. We do this within an $AdS_2/CFT_1$ correspondence and by performing a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-20 Leo Rodriguez , Shanshan Rodriguez

In this paper, we generalise the treatment of isolated horizons in loop quantum gravity, resulting in a Chern-Simons theory on the boundary in the four-dimensional case, to non-distorted isolated horizons in 2(n+1)-dimensional spacetimes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-25 Norbert Bodendorfer , Thomas Thiemann , Andreas Thurn

For distant observers black holes are trapped spacetime domains bounded by apparent horizons. We review properties of the near-horizon geometry emphasizing the consequences of two common implicit assumptions of semiclassical physics. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-16 Robert B. Mann , Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno

We study the effective dynamics of black hole horizons in Einstein-Maxwell theory in a large number of spacetime dimensions $D$. We demonstrate that horizon dynamics may be recast as a well posed initial value problem for the motion of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-25 Sayantani Bhattacharyya , Mangesh Mandlik , Shiraz Minwalla , Somyadip Thakur

We present a new class of near-horizon geometries which solve Einstein's vacuum equations, including a negative cosmological constant, in all even dimensions greater than four. Spatial sections of the horizon are inhomogeneous S^2-bundles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-15 Hari K. Kunduri , James Lucietti

A simple ordinary differential equation is derived governing the red-shifts of wave-fronts propagating through a non-stationary spherically symmetric space-time. Approach to an event horizon corresponds to approach to a fixed point; in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam D. Helfer

The membrane paradigm displays underlying connections between a timelike stretched horizon and a null boundary (such as a black hole horizon) and bridges the gravitational dynamics of the horizon with fluid dynamics. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-14 Laurent Freidel , Puttarak Jai-akson

In any space-time, it is possible to have a family of observers who have access to only part of the space-time manifold, because of the existence of a horizon. We demand that \emph{physical theories in a given coordinate system must be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Padmanabhan , Apoorva Patel

We employ the recently proposed formalism of the "horizon wave-function" to investigate the emergence of a horizon in models of black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. We start from the Klein-Gordon equation for a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giugno , Octavian Micu , Alessio Orlandi

All the Lie point symmetries of the near extremal horizon geometry equation, in the case of 4-dimensional Einstein vacuum spacetime with cosmological constant, are the diffeomorphisms of the space of the null generators of the horizon. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-04 Eryk Buk , Jerzy Lewandowski , Adam Szereszewski