Distinct Minkowski Spaces from BMS Supertranslations
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2018-02-20 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
This work provides a smooth and everywhere well-defined extension of Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) supertranslations into the bulk of Minkowski space. The supertranslations lead to physically distinct spacetimes, all isometric to Minkowski space. This construction is in contrast to the often used, non-smooth BMS transformations that appear in a gauge-fixed description of the theory.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.02670,
title = {Distinct Minkowski Spaces from BMS Supertranslations},
author = {Friedrich Schöller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02670},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, matches published version