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We study various aspects of the Carroll limit in which the speed of light is sent to zero. A large part of this paper is devoted to the quantization of Carroll field theories. We show that these exhibit infinite degeneracies in the spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-24 Jan de Boer , Jelle Hartong , Niels A. Obers , Watse Sybesma , Stefan Vandoren

We utilize the deformed light-cone formalism to investigate the Carrollian version of a complex vector field theory. We find that after applying the null-reduction procedure and the Carrollian limit $c\rightarrow 0$, the "-" null-direction…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-10 Limin Zeng

We compare and contrast the two approaches of holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes, viz. the co-dimension two Celestial approach based on the Mellin transformation and the co-dimension one Carrollian approach based on the modified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-05 Arjun Bagchi , Prateksh Dhivakar , Sudipta Dutta

We provide a holographic bulk realization of Carrollian free-field structures arising in three-dimensional asymptotically flat (higher-spin) gravity. We construct a class of boundary conditions that generalizes the diagonal gauge of Anti-de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-01 Ethan D'Arcy , Arnaud Delfante , Stefan Fredenhagen

In this work, we revisit Carrollian hydrodynamics, a type of non-Lorentzian hydrodynamics which has recently gained increasing attentions due to its underlying connection with dynamics of spacetime near null boundaries, and we aim at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-22 Laurent Freidel , Puttarak Jai-akson

These are course notes for the 'Introduction to holography' Master level course at University of Cologne. The goal of the course is to give a pedogogical introduction to holography. Holography is a popular approach to quantum gravity, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Nele Callebaut

We construct examples of renormalizable Carrollian theories with finite effective central charge and non-trivial dynamics. These include critical points that are not scale-invariant but rather exhibit hyperscaling violation. All of our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-17 Jordan Cotler , Prateksh Dhivakar , Kristan Jensen

We explain how to relate the ideas of Carroll geometry, matrix theory on instantonic objects, and infinite boost limits of M-theory. Based on these new insights, we explore the implications for possible holographic constructions involving a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-23 Chris D. A. Blair , Niels A. Obers , Ziqi Yan

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

Relaxing the Bondi gauge, the solution space of three-dimensional gravity in the metric formulation has been shown to contain an additional free function that promotes the boundary metric to a Lorentz or Carroll frame, in asymptotically AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-21 Andrea Campoleoni , Luca Ciambelli , Arnaud Delfante , Charles Marteau , P. Marios Petropoulos , Romain Ruzziconi

The Swampland Program aims to delineate the space of consistent low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) that admit a UV completion in quantum gravity from those that do not. In parallel, holography, and particularly the AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Alexander Reshetnyak , Pavel Moshin , Ricardo Castro

Asymptotic symmetries of electric and magnetic Carrollian gravitational theories with a negative cosmological constant $\Lambda$ are analyzed in 3+1 space-time dimensions. In the magnetic theory, the asymptotic symmetry algebra is given by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-28 Alfredo Pérez

Carroll symmetry arises from Poincar\'e symmetry when the speed of light is sent to zero. In this work, we apply the Lie algebra expansion method to find the Carroll versions of different gravity models in three space-time dimensions. Our…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-03 Patrick Concha , Evelyn Rodríguez , Sebastián Salgado

We discover a surprising connection between Carrollian symmetries and hydrodynamics in the shallow water approximation. Carrollian symmetries arise in the speed of light going to zero limit of relativistic Poincar\'e symmetries. Using a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 Arjun Bagchi , Aritra Banerjee , Saikat Mondal , Sayantan Sarkar

The formulation of the S-matrix as a path integral with specified asymptotic boundary conditions naturally leads to the realization of a Carrollian partition function defined on the boundary of Minkowski space. This partition function,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Per Kraus , Richard M. Myers

We construct a novel holographic duality by taking a Carrollian limit of the AdS/CFT correspondence, relating string theory in a Carroll bulk geometry to a Carroll $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. We further propose the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Andrea Fontanella , Oliver Payne

We propose a holographic dictionary which comes from reducing the bulk theories in an asymptotically flat spacetime to its null infinity. A general boundary theory is characterized by a fundamental field, an infinite tower of descendant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-23 Wen-Bin Liu , Jiang Long

We provide holographic realisations in Minkowski spacetime of a free conformal Carrollian scalar field living at null infinity. To this end, we first show that the electric and magnetic limits of a relativistic conformal scalar are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-24 Xavier Bekaert , Andrea Campoleoni , Simon Pekar

We study free Carrollian quantum field theories from an algebraic perspective and explore their implications for flat space holography. As explicit examples, we construct the electric and magnetic Carrollian Weyl algebras obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-27 Stefan Fredenhagen , Stefan Prohazka , Robert Tiefenbacher

One of the key issues in holography is going beyond $\mathrm{AdS}$ and defining quantum gravity in spacetimes with a null boundary. Recent examples of this type involve linear dilaton asymptotics and are related to the $T \overline{T}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-01 Christian Ferko , Savdeep Sethi