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A review of our results on the asymptotic structure of gravity at spatial infinity in four spacetime dimensions is given. Finiteness of the action and integrability of the asymptotic Lorentz boost generators are key criteria that we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-06 Marc Henneaux , Cédric Troessaert

Relativistic field theories with a power law decay in $r^{-k}$ at spatial infinity generically possess an infinite number of conserved quantities because of Lorentz invariance. Most of these are not related in any obvious way to symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-26 Marc Henneaux , Cedric Troessaert

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

In previous work arXiv:2407.13556, we proposed an extended phase space structure at null infinity accommodating large gauge symmetries for sub$^n$-leading soft theorems in Yang-Mills, via dressing fields arising in the Stueckelberg…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Silvia Nagy , Javier Peraza , Giorgio Pizzolo

In this paper, we provide a comprehensive study of asymptotically flat spacetime in even dimensions $d\geq 4$. We analyze the most general boundary condition and asymptotic symmetry compatible with Penrose's definition of asymptotic null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Laurent Freidel , Aldo Riello

We use conformal geometry methods and the construction of Friedrich's cylinder at spatial infinity to study the propagation of spin-$0$ fields (solutions to the wave equation) on $n$-dimensional Minkowski spacetimes in a neighbourhood of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Edgar Gasperín , Mariem Magdy , Filipe C. Mena

We present a unified treatment of the conserved asymptotic charges associated with any bosonic massless particle in any spacetime dimension. In particular we provide master formulae for the asymptotic charges and the central extensions in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Kevin Nguyen , Peter West

In the companion paper [SciPost Phys. 13, 108 (2022), arXiv:2205.11401 [hep-th]] we have studied the solution space at null infinity for gravity in the partial Bondi gauge. This partial gauge enables to recover as particular cases and among…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-20 Marc Geiller , Céline Zwikel

In this article we address the question of asymptotic symmetry of massless scalar field at null infinity. We slightly generalize notion of asymptotic symmetry in order to make sense for the theory without gauge symmetry. Derivations of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-26 Dejan Simić

We study asymptotic charges associated to a spin-zero analogue of Weinberg's soft photon and graviton theorems in even dimensions. Simple spacetime expressions for the charges are given, but unlike gravity or electrodynamics, the symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Miguel Campiglia , Leonardo Coito

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 investigate the asymptotic symmetries of General Relativity at spatial infinity within the first-order formalism described by the Holst action. Employing the covariant phase space method, we propose a set of relaxed boundary conditions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Sepideh Bakhoda , Hongguang Liu

We begin with the simplest possible introduction to supergravity. Then we discuss its spin 3/2 stress tensor; these results are new. Next, we discuss boundary conditions on fields and boundary actions for N=1 supergravity. Finally, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. van Nieuwenhuizen , A. Rebhan , D. V. Vassilevich , R. Wimmer

The asymptotic symmetry analysis of Maxwell theory at spatial infinity of Minkowski space with $d\geq 3$ is performed. We revisit the action principle in de Sitter slicing and make it well-defined by an asymptotic gauge fixing. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Erfan Esmaeili

Motivated by connections with observable phenomena, in particular with soft factorization theorems for scattering amplitudes and with memory effects, renewed interest has been recently shown in the subject of asymptotic symmetries at null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-28 Carlo Heissenberg

We investigate the notion of asymptotic symmetries in classical gravity in higher even dimensions, with $D = 6$ space-time dimensions as the prototype. Unlike in four dimensions, certain non-linearities persist which necessitates the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-21 Chandramouli Chowdhury , Ruchira Mishra , Siddharth G. Prabhu

A variational principle is constructed for gravity coupled to an asymptotically linear dilaton and a p-form field strength. This requires the introduction of appropriate surface terms -- also known as `boundary counterterms' -- in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-03 Robert B. Mann , Robert McNees

We investigate $ \mathcal{O}\left( r^N \right) $ asymptotic symmetries for a two-form gauge field in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. By employing symplectic renormalization, we identify $ N $ independent asymptotic charges, with each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-13 Matteo Romoli

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

We propose a consistent set of boundary conditions for gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime at spacelike infinity, which yields an enhancement of the Bondi-Metzner Sachs group with smooth superrotations and new subleading symmetries.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-19 Adrien Fiorucci , Javier Matulich , Romain Ruzziconi