Asymptotic symmetries and charges at spatial infinity in general relativity

We analyze the asymptotic symmetries and their associated charges at spatial infinity in \(4\)-dimensional asymptotically-flat spacetimes. We use the covariant formalism of Ashtekar and Hansen where the asymptotic fields and symmetries live on the \(3\)-manifold of spatial directions at spatial infi...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2020-07
Main Authors: Prabhu, Kartik, Ibrahim, Shehzad
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymptotic properties
Formalism
Infinity
Relativity
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Summary:We analyze the asymptotic symmetries and their associated charges at spatial infinity in \(4\)-dimensional asymptotically-flat spacetimes. We use the covariant formalism of Ashtekar and Hansen where the asymptotic fields and symmetries live on the \(3\)-manifold of spatial directions at spatial infinity, represented by a timelike unit-hyperboloid (or de Sitter space). Using the covariant phase space formalism, we derive formulae for the charges corresponding to asymptotic supertranslations and Lorentz symmetries at spatial infinity. With the motivation of, eventually, proving that these charges match with those defined on null infinity -- as has been conjectured by Strominger -- we do not impose any restrictions on the choice of conformal factor in contrast to previous work on this problem. Since we work with a general conformal factor we expect that our charge expressions will be more suitable to prove the matching of the Lorentz charges at spatial infinity to those defined on null infinity, as has been recently shown for the supertranslation charges.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1912.04305