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The asymptotic structure of three-dimensional hypergravity without cosmological constant is analyzed. In the case of gravity minimally coupled to a spin-$5/2$ field, a consistent set of boundary conditions is proposed, being wide enough so…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-05 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

Disformal transformations of Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker and Bianchi geometries are analyzed in the context of scalar-tensor gravity. Novel aspects discussed explicitly are the $3+1$ splitting, the effective fluid equivalent of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Valerio Faraoni , Carla Zeyn

In this paper we establish two results concerning four-dimensional asymptotically flat spacetimes at spatial infinity. First, we show that the six conserved Lorentz charges are encoded in two unique, distinct, but mutually dual symmetric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Geoffrey Compère , François Dehouck , Amitabh Virmani

Supertranslations, and at least in 2+1 dimensions superrotations, are asymptotic symmetries of the metric in asymptotically flat spacetimes. They are not, however, symmetries of the boundary term of the Einstein-Hilbert action, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-01 S. Carlip

We study the celestial CFT dual to theories with bulk supersymmetry. The boundary theory realizes supersymmetry in the spirit of the Green-Schwarz superstring: there is manifest 4d super-Poincar\'e symmetry, but no 2d superconformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Adam Tropper

We study the nature of asymptotic symmetries in topological 3d gravity with torsion. After introducing the concept of asymptotically anti-de Sitter configuration, we find that the canonical realization of the asymptotic symmetry is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Blagojevic , M. Vasilic

A systematic analysis of the symmetries of topological 3D gravity with torsion and a cosmological term, in the first order formalism, has been performed in details - both in the hamiltonian and lagrangian formalisms. This illuminates the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Rabin Banerjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Pradip Mukherjee , Debraj Roy

Asymptotic symmetries of theories with gravity in d=2m+2 spacetime dimensions are reconsidered for m>1 in light of recent results concerning d=4 BMS symmetries. Weinberg's soft graviton theorem in 2m+2 dimensions is re-expressed as a Ward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Daniel Kapec , Vyacheslav Lysov , Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger

Quantum gravity in 4D asymptotically flat spacetimes features spontaneous symmetry breaking due to soft radiation hair, intimately tied to the proliferation of IR divergences. A holographic description via a putative 2D CFT is expected free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alfredo Guevara , Yangrui Hu

It is shown that the infinite tower of tree-level soft graviton symmetries in asymptotically flat 4D quantum gravity can be organized into a single chiral 2D Kac-Moody symmetry based on the wedge algebra of w(1+infinity). The infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-09 Andrew Strominger

We investigate asymptotic symmetries regularly defined on spherically symmetric Killing horizons in the Einstein theory with or without the cosmological constant. Those asymptotic symmetries are described by asymptotic Killing vectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Jun-ichirou Koga

We demonstrate that a supersymmetric theory twisted on a K\"ahler four manifold $M=\Sigma_1 \times \Sigma_2 ,$ where $\Sigma_{1,2}$ are 2D Riemann surfaces, possesses a "left-moving" conformal stress tensor on $\Sigma_1$ ($\Sigma_2$) in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Andrei Johansen

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 propose a Symmetry Topological Field Theory (SymTFT) for continuous spacetime symmetries. For a $d$-dimensional theory, it is given by a $(d+1)$-dimensional BF-theory for the spacetime symmetry group, and whenever $d$ is even, it can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Fabio Apruzzi , Nicola Dondi , Iñaki García Etxebarria , Ho Tat Lam , Sakura Schafer-Nameki

In this paper, we present a simple chiral 2d theory living on a momentum space celestial sphere whose behaviour exactly produces various IR dynamics of recent resurged interests for 4d (selfdual) Einstein gravity in asymptotically flat…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-31 Wei Bu , Sean Seet

It has been argued that the symmetries of gravity at null infinity should include a Diff$(S^2)$ factor associated to diffeomorphisms on the celestial sphere. However, the standard phase space of gravity does not support the action of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Miguel Campiglia , Javier Peraza

A consistent set of asymptotic conditions for the simplest supergravity theory without cosmological constant in three dimensions is proposed. The canonical generators associated to the asymptotic symmetries are shown to span a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Glenn Barnich , Laura Donnay , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

The asymptotic charges of spin-1 and spin-2 fields are studied near spatial infinity. We evaluate the charges at the critical sets where spatial infinity meets null infinity with the aim of finding the relation between the charges at future…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Mariem Magdy , Juan A. Valiente Kroon

In this paper, we study early-time inflation and late-time acceleration of the universe by non-minimally coupling the Dirac field with torsion in the spatially flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model background. The results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-24 Ganim Gecim , Yusuf Sucu

The recent introduction of a boundary stress tensor for asymptotically flat spacetimes enabled a new construction of energy, momentum, and Lorentz charges. These charges are known to generate the asymptotic symmetries of the theory, but…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert B. Mann , Donald Marolf , Robert McNees , Amitabh Virmani