Gravitational Poisson brackets at null infinity compatible with smooth superrotations

Superrotations are local extensions of the Lorentz group at null infinity that have been argued to be symmetries of gravitational scattering. In their smooth version, they can be identified with the group of diffeomorphisms on the celestial sphere. Their canonicalrealization requires treating the ce...

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Autores: Campiglia Curcho, Miguel, Sudhakar, Adarsh
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2024
País:Uruguay
Recursos:Universidad de la República
Repositorio:COLIBRI
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:colibri.udelar.edu.uy:20.500.12008/48859
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/48859
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Classical theories of gravity
Gauge Symmetry
Space-Time Symmetries
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Resumo:Superrotations are local extensions of the Lorentz group at null infinity that have been argued to be symmetries of gravitational scattering. In their smooth version, they can be identified with the group of diffeomorphisms on the celestial sphere. Their canonicalrealization requires treating the celestial metric as a variable in the gravitational phase space, along with the news and shear tensors. In this paper, we derive the resulting Poisson brackets (PB). The standard PB algebra of the news and shear tensors is augmented by distributional terms at the boundaries of null infinity, including novel PB relations between the celestial metric and the radiative variables.