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The infinite tower of positive-helicity soft gravitons in any minimally coupled, tree-level, asymptotically flat four-dimensional (4D) gravity was recently shown to generate a $w_{1+\infty}$ asymptotic symmetry algebra. It is natural to ask…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-23 Adam Ball , Sruthi Narayanan , Jakob Salzer , Andrew Strominger

Soft theorems can be recast as Ward identities of asymptotic symmetries. We review such relation for the leading and subleading soft graviton theorems in arbitrary even dimensions. While soft theorems are trivially generalized to dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-30 Stefano Lionetti

The space of self-dual Einstein spacetimes in 4 dimensions is acted on by an infinite dimensional Lie algebra called the $Lw_{1+\infty}$ algebra. In this work we explain how one can ``build up'' self-dual metrics by acting on the flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Noah Miller

We investigate asymptotic symmetries in flat backgrounds of dimension higher than or equal to four. For spin two we provide the counterpart of the extended BMS transformations found by Campiglia and Laddha in four-dimensional Minkowski…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrea Campoleoni , Dario Francia , Carlo Heissenberg

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

The operator product expansion of massless celestial primary operators of arbitrary spin is investigated. Poincar\'e symmetry is found to imply a set of recursion relations on the operator product expansion coefficients of the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-09 Elizabeth Himwich , Monica Pate , Kyle Singh

In this paper we compute the celestial operator product expansion between two outgoing positive helicity gravitons in the self dual gravity. It has been shown that the self dual gravity is a $ w_{1+\infty} $-invariant theory whose…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-14 Shamik Banerjee , Harshal Kulkarni , Partha Paul

The dilaton gravity models in two dimensions, including the Jackiw--Teitelboim model and its deformations, are particular cases of Poisson sigma models. Target space diffeomorphisms map one Poisson sigma model to another. We propose to use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-23 Carlos Valcarcel , Dmitri Vassilevich

In 2507.17558, we provide a map from a scalar theory on $(D+2)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime to a scalar theory with a continuous mass spectrum on $(D+1)$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime, and propose a link between celestial amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-26 Hideo Furugori , Naoki Ogawa , Sotaro Sugishita , Takahiro Waki

We consider (2+1)-dimensional (N, M)-extended higher-spin anti-de Sitter supergravity and study its asymptotic symmetries. The theory is described by the Chern-Simons action based on a real, infinite-dimensional higher-spin superalgebra. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Marc Henneaux , Gustavo Lucena Gómez , Jaesung Park , Soo-Jong Rey

We review the role that infinite-dimensional symmetries arising at the boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes play in the context of the celestial holography program. Once recast into the language of conformal field theory, asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-20 Laura Donnay

Four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes at spatial infinity are defined from first principles without imposing parity conditions or restrictions on the Weyl tensor. The Einstein-Hilbert action is shown to be a correct variational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Geoffrey Compère , François Dehouck

In this paper, we revisit the question of identifying Soft Graviton theorem in higher (even) dimensions with Ward identities associated with Asymptotic symmetries. Building on the prior work of \cite{strominger}, we compute, from first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-04 Ankit Aggarwal

We analyze the asymptotic symmetries and their associated charges at spatial infinity in $4$-dimensional asymptotically-flat spacetimes. We use the covariant formalism of Ashtekar and Hansen where the asymptotic fields and symmetries live…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-05 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

In asymptotically anti-de Sitter gravity, diffeomorphisms that change the conformal boundary data can be promoted to genuine physical degrees of freedom. I show that in 2+1 dimensions, the dynamics of these degrees of freedom is described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

We consider the twistor description of classical self-dual Einstein gravity in the presence of a defect operator wrapping a certain $\mathbb{CP}^1$. The backreaction of this defect deforms the flat twistor space to that of Eguchi-Hanson…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Roland Bittleston , Simon Heuveline , David Skinner

We investigate the relation between the subleading soft graviton theorem and asymptotic symmetries in gravity in even dimensions $d=2+2m$ higher than four. After rewriting the subleading soft graviton theorem as a Ward identity, we argue…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-24 Dimitri Colferai , Stefano Lionetti

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

We revisit the status of asymptotic symmetries in higher even dimensions and propose a definition of superrotation charge beyond linearized gravity. We prove that there is a well-defined spacetime action of the superrotation charge on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Anupam A. H. , Arpan Kundu