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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

Conformal Gravity (CG) is a Weyl--invariant metric theory whose action is free from divergences for generic asymptotically anti-de Sitter spaces. For Neumann boundary conditions, it reduces to renormalized Einstein--AdS gravity at tree…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-18 Giorgos Anastasiou , Martin Bravo , Rodrigo Olea

In this work we analyse asymptotically flat, spherically symmetric spacetimes in which an event horizon is present without any trapped surfaces. We identify two types of such spacetimes, each related to the asymptotic behaviour (in time) of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 Carlos Barceló , Valentin Boyanov , Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Luis J. Garay

We identify boundary terms renormalizing the free on-shell actions for massless fields of arbitrary spin, including electromagnetism and linearized gravity, with boundary conditions allowing for supertranslation-like asymptotic symmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-23 Andrea Campoleoni , Arnaud Delfante , Dario Francia , Carlo Heissenberg

We give a general geometric definition of asymptotic flatness at null infinity in $d$-dimensional general relativity ($d$ even) within the framework of conformal infinity. Our definition is arrived at via an analysis of linear perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Stefan Hollands , Akihiro Ishibashi

Since the late1950s, almost all discussions of Asymptotically Flat (Einstein-Maxwell) Space-Times have taken place in the context of Penrose's Null Infinity, $\mathcal{I}^{+}.$\ $\ $In addition,\ almost all calculations have used the Bondi…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-31 Ezra T. Newman

We show that the symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat four dimensional spacetimes at null infinity in the sense of Newman and Unti is isomorphic to the direct sum of the abelian algebra of infinitesimal conformal rescalings with bms4. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-30 Glenn Barnich , Pierre-Henry Lambert

We present a new set of asymptotic conditions for gravity at spatial infinity that includes gravitational magnetic-type solutions, allows for a non-trivial Hamiltonian action of the complete $BMS_4$ algebra, and leads to a non-divergent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

We compute the boundary stress tensor associated with Mann-Marolf counterterm in asymptotic flat and static spacetime for cylindrical boundary surface as $r \rightarrow \infty$, and find that the form of the boundary stress tensor is the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-06-06 Miok Park , Robert B. Mann

Gravitational waves with a space-translation Killing field are considered. In this case, the 4-dimensional Einstein vacuum equations are equivalent to the 3-dimensional Einstein equations with certain matter sources. This interplay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Abhay Ashtekar , Jiri Bicak , Bernd G. Schmidt

We investigate the asymptotia of decelerating and spatially flat FLRW spacetimes at future null infinity. We find that the asymptotic algebra of diffeomorphisms can be enlarged to the recently discovered Weyl-BMS algebra for asymptotically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-09 Martin Enriquez-Rojo , Till Heckelbacher , Roberto Oliveri

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

In this paper we analyze the conformal Einstein equations to all orders at null infinity without imposing any restriction on the spacetime dimension, the topology of $\mathscr{I}$, or fall-off conditions for the Weyl tensor. In particular,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Marc Mars , Gabriel Sánchez-Pérez

We study the free data in the Fefferman-Graham expansion of asymptotically Einstein metrics with non-zero cosmological constant. We prove that if $\mathscr{I}$ is conformally flat, the rescaled Weyl tensor at $\mathscr{I}$ agrees up to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Marc Mars , Carlos Peón-Nieto

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

Asymptotic symmetries in Carrollian gravitational theories in 3+1 space and time dimensions obtained from "magnetic" and "electric" ultrarelativistic contractions of General Relativity are analyzed. In both cases, parity conditions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Alfredo Pérez

Starting from Post-Newtonian predictions for a system of $N$ infalling masses from the infinite past, we formulate and solve a scattering problem for the system of linearised gravity around Schwarzschild as introduced in [DHR19]. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Lionor Kehrberger , Hamed Masaood

We study canonical conformal gravity in four dimensions and construct the gauge generators and the associated charges. Using slightly generalized boundary conditions compared to those in \cite{Grumiller:2013mxa} we find that the charges…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Maria Irakleidou , Iva Lovrekovic , Florian Preis

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

Symmetries are ubiquitous in modern physics. They not only allow for a more simplified description of physical systems but also, from a more fundamental perspective, can be seen as determining a theory itself. In the present paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Níckolas de Aguiar Alves , Andre G. S. Landulfo