Asymptotic Symmetries at Spatial Infinity
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2025-10-10 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
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 requirements of the asymptotic transformations considered previously, without violating asymptotic flatness. This leads to an enhancement of the asymptotic symmetry group that includes logarithmic supertranslations at spatial infinity. Our results complement several recent results which confirm the existence of logarithmic supertranslations at spatial infinity in the Hamiltonian formalism.
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@article{arxiv.2504.19910,
title = {Asymptotic Symmetries at Spatial Infinity},
author = {Sharad Mishra and Kinjal Banerjee and Jishnu Bhattacharyya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19910},
year = {2025}
}
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44 pages, 1 figure, Accepeted for publication in Classical and Quantum Gravity