General null asymptotics and superrotation-compatible configuration spaces in d≥4
General null asymptotics and superrotation-compatible configuration spaces in d≥4
We address the problem of consistent Campiglia-Laddha superrotations in $d > 4$ by solving Bondi-Sachs gauge vacuum Einstein equations at the non-linear level with the most general boundary conditions preserving the null nature of infinity. We discuss how to generalise the boundary structure to make the configuration space compatible with supertanslation-like and superrotation-like transformations. One possibility requires the time-independent boundary metric on the cuts of $\mathscr{I}$ to be non-Einstein, while the other sticks to Einstein but time-dependent metrics. Both are novel features with respect to the four-dimensional case, where time-dependence of the two-dimensional cross-sectional metric is not required and the Einstein condition is trivially satisfied. Other cases are also discussed. These conditions imply that the configuration spaces are not asymptotically flat in the standard sense. We discuss the implications on the construction of the phase space and the relationship with soft scattering theorems. We show that in even spacetime dimensions, the initial data compatible with such asymptotic symmetries produce maximally polyhomogeneous expansions of the metric and we advance a potential interpretation of this structure in terms of AdS/CFT and realizations of Ricci-flat holography.
Capone, Federico
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Capone, Federico
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Capone, Federico
(2021)
General null asymptotics and superrotation-compatible configuration spaces in d≥4.
Journal of High Energy Physics, 158, [158].
(doi:10.1007/JHEP10(2021)158).
(Submitted)
Abstract
We address the problem of consistent Campiglia-Laddha superrotations in $d > 4$ by solving Bondi-Sachs gauge vacuum Einstein equations at the non-linear level with the most general boundary conditions preserving the null nature of infinity. We discuss how to generalise the boundary structure to make the configuration space compatible with supertanslation-like and superrotation-like transformations. One possibility requires the time-independent boundary metric on the cuts of $\mathscr{I}$ to be non-Einstein, while the other sticks to Einstein but time-dependent metrics. Both are novel features with respect to the four-dimensional case, where time-dependence of the two-dimensional cross-sectional metric is not required and the Einstein condition is trivially satisfied. Other cases are also discussed. These conditions imply that the configuration spaces are not asymptotically flat in the standard sense. We discuss the implications on the construction of the phase space and the relationship with soft scattering theorems. We show that in even spacetime dimensions, the initial data compatible with such asymptotic symmetries produce maximally polyhomogeneous expansions of the metric and we advance a potential interpretation of this structure in terms of AdS/CFT and realizations of Ricci-flat holography.
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Submitted date: 12 August 2021
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Capone, F. Erratum to: General null asymptotics and superrotation-compatible configuration spaces in d ≥ 4. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 113 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2022)113
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