Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes

2019 ◽  
pp. 81-102
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Compère
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Flat Spacetimes

scholarly journals BMS field theories and Weyl anomaly

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arjun Bagchi ◽  
Sudipta Dutta ◽  
Kedar S. Kolekar ◽  
Punit Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Partition Functions ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Speed Of Light ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Weyl Invariance ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Liouville Action ◽  
Null Surfaces

Abstract Two dimensional field theories with Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry have been proposed as duals to asymptotically flat spacetimes in three dimensions. These field theories are naturally defined on null surfaces and hence are conformal cousins of Carrollian theories, where the speed of light goes to zero. In this paper, we initiate an investigation of anomalies in these field theories. Specifically, we focus on the BMS equivalent of Weyl invariance and its breakdown in these field theories and derive an expression for Weyl anomaly. Considering the transformation of partition functions under this symmetry, we derive a Carrollian Liouville action different from ones obtained in the literature earlier.

scholarly journals Soft photon theorem in the small negative cosmological constant limit

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nabamita Banerjee ◽  
Karan Fernandes ◽  
Arpita Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Tree Level ◽  
Leading Order ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Soft Factor ◽  
Flat Spacetime ◽  
Electromagnetic Interactions ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Perturbative Corrections ◽  
Soft Factors

Abstract We study the effect of electromagnetic interactions on the classical soft theorems on an asymptotically AdS background in 4 spacetime dimensions, in the limit of a small cosmological constant or equivalently a large AdS radius l. This identifies 1/l2 perturbative corrections to the known asymptotically flat spacetime leading and subleading soft factors. Our analysis is only valid to leading order in 1/l2. The leading soft factor can be expected to be universal and holds beyond tree level. This allows us to derive a 1/l2 corrected Ward identity, following the known equivalence between large gauge Ward identities and soft theorems in asymptotically flat spacetimes.

scholarly journals Observations of Hawking radiation: the Page curve and baby universes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Marolf ◽  
Henry Maxfield
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Late Time ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Black Hole Information ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Baby Universes ◽  
Time Extrapolation ◽  
Asymptotic Observers

AbstractWe reformulate recent insights into black hole information in a manner emphasizing operationally-defined notions of entropy, Lorentz-signature descriptions, and asymptotically flat spacetimes. With the help of replica wormholes, we find that experiments of asymptotic observers are consistent with black holes as unitary quantum systems, with density of states given by the Bekenstein-Hawking formula. However, this comes at the cost of superselection sectors associated with the state of baby universes. Spacetimes studied by Polchinski and Strominger in 1994 provide a simple illustration of the associated concepts and techniques, and we argue them to be a natural late-time extrapolation of replica wormholes. The work aims to be self-contained and, in particular, to be accessible to readers who have not yet mastered earlier formulations of the ideas above.

scholarly journals On mean curvature flow of spacelike hypersurfaces in asymptotically flat spacetimes

1993 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Ecker
Keyword(s):  
Mean Curvature ◽  
Mean Curvature Flow ◽  
A Priori Estimates ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Curvature Flow ◽  
Lorentzian Manifold ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Spacelike Hypersurfaces ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Weaker Conditions

AbstractWe prove a priori estimates for the gradient and curvature of spacelike hypersurfaces moving by mean curvature in a Lorentzian manifold. These estimates are obtained under much weaker conditions than have been previously assumed. We also use mean curvature flow in the construction of maximal slices in asymptotically flat spacetimes. An essential tool is a maximum principle for sub-solutions of a parabolic operator on complete Riemannian manifolds with time-dependent metric.

scholarly journals Motion of spinning particles in non asymptotically flat spacetimes

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bobir Toshmatov ◽  
Ozodbek Rahimov ◽  
Bobomurat Ahmedov ◽  
Daniele Malafarina
Keyword(s):  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Spherically Symmetric ◽  
Combined Effects ◽  
Circular Orbits ◽  
Spinning Particles ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Asymptotic Flatness ◽  
Test Particles ◽  
Cosmological Context ◽  
Flat Spacetimes

Abstract The assumption of asymptotic flatness for isolated astrophysical bodies may be considered an approximation when one considers a cosmological context where a cosmological constant or vacuum energy is present. In this framework we study the motion of spinning particles in static, spherically symmetric and asymptotically non-flat spacetimes with repulsive cosmological vacuum energy and quintessential field. Due to the combined effects of gravitational attraction and cosmological repulsion, the region where stable circular orbits are allowed is restricted by an innermost and an outermost stable circular orbits. We show that taking into account the spin of test particles may enlarge or shrink the region of allowed stable circular orbits depending on whether the spin is co-rotating or counter-rotating with the angular momentum of the particles.

scholarly journals Holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes and the BMS group

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 5655-5674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Arcioni ◽  
Claudio Dappiaggi
Keyword(s):  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Flat Spacetimes

Flat space holography

2008 ◽  
Vol 86 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-570
Author(s):  
R B Mann
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Flat Space ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Spacetime Dimension ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Concrete Realization ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Spacelike Infinity

The implementation of holography in gravitational physics has its most concrete realization in the context of the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence conjecture, an implication of which is that counterterms from the boundary CFT can be understood as surface terms that render the variational principle finite and well-defined for the gravity theory in the bulk. I discuss recent developments that show how such gravitational counterterms can be deployed for asymptotically flat spacetimes in any spacetime dimension d ≥ 4. These actions yield conserved quantities at spacelike infinity that agree with the usual Arnowitt–Deser–Misner results but are more general. This approach removes the need for ill-defined background subtraction methods and suggests the possibility of obtaining a dual field theory to gravity theories in asymptotically flat spacetimes.PACS Nos.: 04.20.Ha, 04.60.–m, 11.25.Tq

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