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We undertake a general study of the boundary (or edge) modes that arise in gauge and gravitational theories defined on a space with boundary, either asymptotic or at finite distance, focusing on efficient techniques for computing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Seolhwa Kim , Per Kraus , Richard M. Myers

A finite action principle for three-dimensional gravity with negative cosmological constant, based on a boundary condition for the asymptotic extrinsic curvature, is considered. The bulk action appears naturally supplemented by a boundary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Olivera Miskovic , Rodrigo Olea

We build the asymptotic higher-spin charges associated with "improper" gauge transformations for fermionic higher-spin gauge fields on Anti de Sitter backgrounds of arbitrary dimension. This is achieved within the canonical formalism. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Andrea Campoleoni , Marc Henneaux , Sergio Hörtner , Amaury Leonard

We introduced in a previous paper a general notion of asymptotic morphism of a given local net of observables, which allows to describe the sectors of a corresponding scaling limit net. Here, as an application, we illustrate the general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Roberto Conti , Gerardo Morsella

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

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

For asymptotically flat spacetimes, a conjecture by Strominger states that asymptotic BMS-supertranslations and their associated charges at past null infinity $\mathscr{I}^{-}$ can be related to those at future null infinity…

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

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

The asymptotically flat structure of $\mathcal{N}=(2,0)$ supergravity in three spacetime dimensions is explored. The asymptotic symmetries are spanned by an extension of the super-BMS$_3$ algebra, with two independent $\hat{u}(1)$ currents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-11 Oscar Fuentealba , Javier Matulich , Ricardo Troncoso

We describe asymptotic symmetries at spatial infinity of asymptotically flat spacetimes within the context of a generalization of the Beig-Schmidt-Ashtekar-Romano-framework. We demonstrate that it is possible to relax certain smoothness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Sharad Mishra , Kinjal Banerjee , Jishnu Bhattacharyya

In recent years soft factorization theorems in scattering amplitudes have been reinterpreted as conservation laws of asymptotic charges. In gauge, gravity, and higher spin theories the asymptotic charges can be understood as canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-18 Miguel Campiglia , Laurent Freidel , Florian Hopfmüller , Ronak M Soni

We give a basic introduction to ghost-free nonlinear theories involving massive spin-2 fields, focussing on bimetric theory. After motivating the construction of such models from field theoretical considerations, we review the linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-25 Angnis Schmidt-May

We revisit the gravitational boundary action at null infinity of asymptotically flat spacetimes. We fix the corner ambiguities in the boundary action by using the constraint that (exponential of) the on-shell action leads to tree-level…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Shivam Upadhyay

Explicit boundary conditions are given at spatial infinity for four-dimensional supergravity, which provide a realization of the super-BMS algebra of Awada, Gibbons and Shaw. The results are then generalized to the $N$- extended super-BMS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Marc Henneaux , Javier Matulich , Turmoli Neogi

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 study the asymptotic symmetries of Einstein gravity in flat space. Instead of Bondi gauge, we work with the recently introduced special double null gauge, in which $\mathscr{I}^{+}$ and $\mathscr{I}^{-}$ are approached along null…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-01 Chethan Krishnan , Jude Pereira

We discuss the origin of the effectively free dynamics of the charge in the magnetic monopole field to apply it for finding the alternative treatment of the charge-monopole as a particle with spin, for tracing out the relation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Mikhail S. Plyushchay

We investigate the asymptotic symmetry algebra of (2+1)-dimensional higher spin, anti-de Sitter gravity. We use the formulation of the theory as a Chern-Simons gauge theory based on the higher spin algebra hs(1,1). Expanding the gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 Marc Henneaux , Soo-Jong Rey

Various equivalences between so-called soft theorems which constrain scattering amplitudes and Ward identities related to asymptotic symmetries have recently been established in gauge theories and gravity. So far these equivalences have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-21 Miguel Campiglia , Alok Laddha

We derive asymptotic estimates at infinity for positive harmonic functions in a large class of non-smooth unbounded domains. These include domains whose sections, after rescaling, resemble a Lipschitz cylinder or a Lipschitz cone, e.g.,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-12-13 Koushik Ramachandran