Polyharmonic green functions and nonlocal Bondi-Metzner-Sachs transformations of a free scalar field

We express the nonlocal Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) charges of a free massless Klein-Gordon scalar field in 2 þ 1 in terms of the Green functions of the polyharmonic operators. Using the properties of these Green functions, we are able to discuss the asymptotic behavior of the fields that ensures the...

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Autores: Batlle Arnau, Carles|||0000-0002-6088-6187, Campello, Víctor, Gomis Torné, Joaquim
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/380745
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/380745
https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.107.025010
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Symmetry (Mathematics)
Harmonic functions
BMS symmetry
Nonlocal transformations
Polyharmonic functions
Simetria (Matemàtica)
Funcions harmòniques
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Sumario:We express the nonlocal Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) charges of a free massless Klein-Gordon scalar field in 2 þ 1 in terms of the Green functions of the polyharmonic operators. Using the properties of these Green functions, we are able to discuss the asymptotic behavior of the fields that ensures the existence of the charges and prove that one obtains a realization of the 2 þ 1 BMS algebra in canonical phase space. We also discuss the transformations in configuration space and show that in this case the algebra closes only up to skew-symmetric combinations of the equations of motion. The formulation of the charges in terms of Green functions opens the way to the generalization of the formalism to other dimensions and systems.