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Motivated by the thermodynamics of black hole solutions conformal to stationary solutions, we study the geometric invariant theory of null hypersurfaces. It is well-known that a null hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold can be treated as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-19 Samuel Blitz , David McNutt

We propose an approach to Carrollian geometry using principal $\mathbb{R}^\times$-bundles ($\mathbb{R}^\times := \matthbb{R} \setminus \{0\}$) equipped with a degenerate metric whose kernel is the module of vertical vector fields. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Andrew James Bruce

We study the concept of Carrollian spacetime starting from its underlying fiber-bundle structure. The latter admits an Ehresmann connection, which enables a natural separation of time and space, preserved by the subset of Carrollian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-21 Luca Ciambelli , Robert G. Leigh , Charles Marteau , P. Marios Petropoulos

It is well-known that unlike space-like and time-like hypersurfaces, null hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds do not naturally inherit an affine connection from the spacetime in which they are embedded. On the other hand, recent…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Samuel Blitz , Gabriel Herczeg , David McNutt

Carrollian manifolds offer an intrinsic geometric framework for the physics in the ultra-relativistic limit. The recently introduced Carrollian Lie algebroids are generalised to the setting of $\rho$-commutative geometry, (also known as…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Andrew James Bruce

This report reviews key developments in Carrollian physics with an emphasis on their role in the emerging framework of holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes. We begin by introducing the Carrollian limit, understood as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-04 Romain Ruzziconi

Developments in Carrollian gravity and holography necessitate the use of singular Carroll vector fields, a feature that cannot be accommodated within standard Carrollian geometry. We introduce Carrollian Lie algebroids as a framework to…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Andrew James Bruce

The Carrollian limit ($c \to 0$) of General Relativity provides the geometric language for describing null hypersurfaces, such as black hole event horizons and null infinity. Motivated by the well-established electric and magnetic limits of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Tanmay Patil , S. Shankaranarayanan

This thesis explores several facets of Carroll symmetries through their applications to field theories and gravity. The geometric description of curved Carroll manifolds is developed from a Cartan-geometric viewpoint, reviewed at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-16 Florian Ecker

In this paper, we present a comprehensive toolbox for studying Carrollian stretched horizons, encompassing their geometry, dynamics, symplectic geometry, symmetries, and corresponding Noether charges. We introduce a precise definition of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Laurent Freidel , Puttarak Jai-akson

Connections compatible with degenerate metric structures are known to possess peculiar features: on the one hand, the compatibility conditions involve restrictions on the torsion; on the other hand, torsionfree compatible connections are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-03 Xavier Bekaert , Kevin Morand

We discuss three different (conformally) Carrollian geometries and their relation to null infinity from the unifying perspective of Cartan geometry. Null infinity \emph{per se} comes with numerous redundancies in its intrinsic geometry and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-12 Yannick Herfray

The membrane paradigm displays underlying connections between a timelike stretched horizon and a null boundary (such as a black hole horizon) and bridges the gravitational dynamics of the horizon with fluid dynamics. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-14 Laurent Freidel , Puttarak Jai-akson

We introduce and study the notion of null manifold. This is a smooth manifold ${\mathcal N}$ endowed with a degenerate metric $\gamma$ with one-dimensional radical at every point. We also define the notion of ruled null manifold, which is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-13 Marc Mars

The aim of this series of papers is to generalise the ambient approach of Duval et al. regarding the embedding of Galilean and Carrollian geometries inside gravitational waves with parallel rays. In this first part, we propose a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-21 Kevin Morand

The Carroll group arises in the vanishing speed of light limit of the Poincar\'{e} group and was initially discarded as just a mathematical curiosity. However, recent developments have proved otherwise. Carroll and conformal Carroll…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Prateksh Dhivakar , Saikat Mondal , Ashish Shukla

Carrollian conformal field theories (carrollian CFTs) are natural field theories on null infinity of an asymptotically flat spacetime or, in general, geometries with conformal carrollian structure. Using a basis transformation,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-13 Jakob Salzer

We explicitly determine all shear-free null hypersurfaces embedded in an Einstein spacetime, including vacuum asymptotically flat spacetimes. We characterize these hypersurfaces as oriented 3-dimensional manifolds where each is equipped…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 S. Blitz , D. McNutt , P. Nurowski

In this article, we consider some Carrollian dynamical systems as effective models on null hypersurfaces in a Lorentzian spacetime. We show that we can realize Carroll models from more usual ``relativistic'' theories. In particular, we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-18 Loïc Marsot

It is well known that the geometrical framework of Riemannian geometry that underlies general relativity and its torsionful extension to Riemann-Cartan geometry can be obtained from a procedure known as gauging the Poincare algebra.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Jelle Hartong
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