scholarly journals Holographic symmetry algebras for gauge theory and gravity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Guevara ◽  
E. Himwich ◽  
M. Pate ◽  
A. Strominger
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theory ◽  
Infinite Number ◽  
Symmetry Algebra ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Gravitational Theories ◽  
Closed Subalgebra ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Celestial Sphere

Abstract All 4D gauge and gravitational theories in asymptotically flat spacetimes contain an infinite number of non-trivial symmetries. They can be succinctly characterized by generalized 2D currents acting on the celestial sphere. A complete classification of these symmetries and their algebras is an open problem. Here we construct two towers of such 2D currents from positive-helicity photons, gluons, or gravitons with integer conformal weights. These generate the symmetries associated to an infinite tower of conformally soft theorems. The current algebra commutators are explicitly derived from the poles in the OPE coefficients, and found to comprise a rich closed subalgebra of the complete symmetry algebra.

scholarly journals BMS algebras in 4 and 3 dimensions, their quantum deformations and duals

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrzej Borowiec ◽  
Lennart Brocki ◽  
Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman ◽  
Josua Unger
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Hopf Algebras ◽  
Dimensional Case ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
3 Dimensional ◽  
Structures And Properties ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Quantum Deformations ◽  
Flat Spacetimes ◽  
Quantum Spacetime

Abstract BMS symmetry is a symmetry of asymptotically flat spacetimes in vicinity of the null boundary of spacetime and it is expected to play a fundamental role in physics. It is interesting therefore to investigate the structures and properties of quantum deformations of these symmetries, which are expected to shed some light on symmetries of quantum spacetime. In this paper we discuss the structure of the algebra of extended BMS symmetries in 3 and 4 spacetime dimensions, realizing that these algebras contain an infinite number of distinct Poincaré subalgebras, a fact that has previously been noted in the 3 dimensional case only. Then we use these subalgebras to construct an infinite number of different Hopf algebras being quantum deformations of the BMS algebras. We also discuss different types of twist-deformations and the dual Hopf algebras, which could be interpreted as noncommutative, extended quantum spacetimes.

scholarly journals Gravitational edge modes, coadjoint orbits, and hydrodynamics

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
William Donnelly ◽  
Laurent Freidel ◽  
Seyed Faroogh Moosavian ◽  
Antony J. Speranza
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Boundary Surface ◽  
Infinite Family ◽  
Symmetry Algebra ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Coadjoint Orbits ◽  
Poincaré Group ◽  
Poincare Group ◽  
Dimensional Group

Abstract The phase space of general relativity in a finite subregion is characterized by edge modes localized at the codimension-2 boundary, transforming under an infinite-dimensional group of symmetries. The quantization of this symmetry algebra is conjectured to be an important aspect of quantum gravity. As a step towards quantization, we derive a complete classification of the positive-area coadjoint orbits of this group for boundaries that are topologically a 2-sphere. This classification parallels Wigner’s famous classification of representations of the Poincaré group since both groups have the structure of a semidirect product. We find that the total area is a Casimir of the algebra, analogous to mass in the Poincaré group. A further infinite family of Casimirs can be constructed from the curvature of the normal bundle of the boundary surface. These arise as invariants of the little group, which is the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms, and are the analogues of spin. Additionally, we show that the symmetry group of hydrodynamics appears as a reduction of the corner symmetries of general relativity. Coadjoint orbits of both groups are classified by the same set of invariants, and, in the case of the hydrodynamical group, the invariants are interpreted as the generalized enstrophies of the fluid.

scholarly journals A Note on the Newman-Unti Group and the BMS Charge Algebra in Terms of Newman-Penrose Coefficients

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Barnich ◽  
Pierre-Henry Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Riemann Sphere ◽  
Symmetry Algebra ◽  
Conformal Killing ◽  
Surface Charges ◽  
Null Infinity ◽  
Asymptotically Flat ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Abelian Algebra ◽  
Conformal Killing Vectors ◽  
Flat Spacetimes

The symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity in four dimensions in the sense of Newman and Unti is revisited. As in the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs gauge, it is shown to be isomorphic to the direct sum of the abelian algebra of infinitesimal conformal rescalings with𝔟𝔪𝔰4. The latter algebra is the semidirect sum of infinitesimal supertranslations with the conformal Killing vectors of the Riemann sphere. Infinitesimal local conformal transformations can then consistently be included. We work out the local conformal properties of the relevant Newman-Penrose coefficients, construct the surface charges, and derive their algebra.

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 Multiplicative automatic sequences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakub Konieczny ◽  
Mariusz Lemańczyk ◽  
Clemens Müllner
Keyword(s):  
Complete Classification ◽  
Automatic Sequences ◽  
Complex Valued

AbstractWe obtain a complete classification of complex-valued sequences which are both multiplicative and automatic.

scholarly journals Classification of Degenerate Verma Modules for E(5, 10)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicoletta Cantarini ◽  
Fabrizio Caselli ◽  
Victor Kac
Keyword(s):  
Infinite Number ◽  
Verma Module ◽  
Lie Superalgebra ◽  
Verma Modules ◽  
Singular Vectors ◽  
Finite Dimensional ◽  
De Rham ◽  
Via Classification

AbstractGiven a Lie superalgebra $${\mathfrak {g}}$$ g with a subalgebra $${\mathfrak {g}}_{\ge 0}$$ g ≥ 0 , and a finite-dimensional irreducible $${\mathfrak {g}}_{\ge 0}$$ g ≥ 0 -module F, the induced $${\mathfrak {g}}$$ g -module $$M(F)={\mathcal {U}}({\mathfrak {g}})\otimes _{{\mathcal {U}}({\mathfrak {g}}_{\ge 0})}F$$ M ( F ) = U ( g ) ⊗ U ( g ≥ 0 ) F is called a finite Verma module. In the present paper we classify the non-irreducible finite Verma modules over the largest exceptional linearly compact Lie superalgebra $${\mathfrak {g}}=E(5,10)$$ g = E ( 5 , 10 ) with the subalgebra $${\mathfrak {g}}_{\ge 0}$$ g ≥ 0 of minimal codimension. This is done via classification of all singular vectors in the modules M(F). Besides known singular vectors of degree 1,2,3,4 and 5, we discover two new singular vectors, of degrees 7 and 11. We show that the corresponding morphisms of finite Verma modules of degree 1,4,7, and 11 can be arranged in an infinite number of bilateral infinite complexes, which may be viewed as “exceptional” de Rham complexes for E(5, 10).

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 Characteristic cohomology and observables in higher spin gravity

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Sharapov ◽  
Evgeny Skvortsov
Keyword(s):  
Higher Spin Gravity ◽  
Complete Classification ◽  
Gravity Models ◽  
Simons Theory ◽  
Surface Charges ◽  
Higher Spin ◽  
Dynamical Invariants ◽  
Chern Simons ◽  
Conserved Currents

Abstract We give a complete classification of dynamical invariants in 3d and 4d Higher Spin Gravity models, with some comments on arbitrary d. These include holographic correlation functions, interaction vertices, on-shell actions, conserved currents, surface charges, and some others. Surprisingly, there are a good many conserved p-form currents with various p. The last fact, being in tension with ‘no nontrivial conserved currents in quantum gravity’ and similar statements, gives an indication of hidden integrability of the models. Our results rely on a systematic computation of Hochschild, cyclic, and Chevalley-Eilenberg cohomology for the corresponding higher spin algebras. A new invariant in Chern-Simons theory with the Weyl algebra as gauge algebra is also presented.

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