26–29 Sept 2017
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

BMS4 at spatial infinity

28 Sept 2017, 15:20
20m
Seminar room 1 (DESY Hamburg)

Seminar room 1

DESY Hamburg

Notkestrasse 85, 22607 Hamburg
String & Mathematical Physics Parallel Session: Strings & Mathematical Physics

Speaker

Cedric Troessaert (MPI-AEI Golm)

Description

A few years ago Strominger argued that the BMS4 algebra, usually defined at null infinity, should be regarded as a true symmetry of gravitational evolution of asymptotically flat space-times. This implies the existence of an infinite tower of conserved quantities and brings new insight to various problems like gravitational scattering or black-holes evaporation. In this talk, I will show how BMS4 algebra arises as a symmetry at spatial infinity and prove the associated conservation laws conjectured by Strominger

Primary author

Cedric Troessaert (MPI-AEI Golm)

Presentation materials