Continuous Spins in the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Group of Asymptotic Symmetry in General Relativity

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 565-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Girardello ◽  
G. Parravicini
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry ◽  
Continuous Spins

Kleinian characterization of asymptotic symmetries of real general relativity

1993 ◽  
Vol 441 (1913) ◽  
pp. 465-471 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Automorphism Group ◽  
Group Action ◽  
Radon Transform ◽  
Symmetry Groups ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Given ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetries

According to Klein’s Erlanger programme, one may (indirectly) specify a geometry by giving a group action. Conversely, given a group action, one may ask for the corresponding geometry. Recently, I showed that the real asymptotic symmetry groups of general relativity (in any signature) have natural ‘projective’ classical actions on suitable ‘Radon transform’ spaces of affine 3-planes in flat 4-space. In this paper, I give concrete models for these groups and actions. Also, for the ‘atomic’ cases, I give geometric structures for the spaces of affine 3-planes for which the given actions are the automorphism group.

scholarly journals Lie theory for asymptotic symmetries in general relativity: The BMS Group

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Nicolas Prinz ◽  
Alexander Schmeding
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Lie Group ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Symmetry Groups ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry ◽  
Infinite Dimensional ◽  
Real Analytic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Future Work ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetries

Abstract We study the Lie group structure of asymptotic symmetry groups in General Relativity from the viewpoint of infinite-dimensional geometry. To this end, we review the geometric definition of asymptotic simplicity and emptiness due to Penrose and the coordinate-wise definition of asymptotic flatness due to Bondi et al. Then we construct the Lie group structure of the Bondi--Metzner--Sachs (BMS) group and discuss its Lie theoretic properties. We find that the BMS group is regular in the sense of Milnor, but not real analytic. This motivates us to conjecture that it is not locally exponential. Finally, we verify the Trotter property as well as the commutator property. As an outlook, we comment on the situation of related asymptotic symmetry groups. In particular, the much more involved situation of the Newman--Unti group is highlighted, which will be studied in future work.

scholarly journals Extensions of the asymptotic symmetry algebra of general relativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Éanna É. Flanagan ◽  
Kartik Prabhu ◽  
Ibrahim Shehzad
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Symmetry Algebra ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry

scholarly journals Asymptotic symmetries in Carrollian theories of gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfredo Pérez
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Symmetry Algebra ◽  
Einstein Gravity ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetry ◽  
Gravitational Theories ◽  
Theories Of Gravity ◽  
Spatial Rotations ◽  
Lapse Function ◽  
Asymptotic Symmetries

Abstract Asymptotic symmetries in Carrollian gravitational theories in 3+1 space and time dimensions obtained from “magnetic” and “electric” ultrarelativistic contractions of General Relativity are analyzed. In both cases, parity conditions are needed to guarantee a finite symplectic term, in analogy with Einstein gravity. For the magnetic contraction, when Regge-Teitelboim parity conditions are imposed, the asymptotic symmetries are described by the Carroll group. With Henneaux-Troessaert parity conditions, the asymptotic symmetry algebra corresponds to a BMS-like extension of the Carroll algebra. For the electric contraction, because the lapse function does not appear in the boundary term needed to ensure a well-defined action principle, the asymptotic symmetry algebra is truncated, for Regge-Teitelboim parity conditions, to the semidirect sum of spatial rotations and spatial translations. Similarly, with Henneaux-Troessaert parity conditions, the asymptotic symmetries are given by the semidirect sum of spatial rotations and an infinite number of parity odd supertranslations. Thus, from the point of view of the asymptotic symmetries, the magnetic contraction can be seen as a smooth limit of General Relativity, in contrast to its electric counterpart.

General Relativity

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Hobson ◽  
G. P. Efstathiou ◽  
A. N. Lasenby
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity
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