Conformal Carroll groups and BMS symmetry

2014/02/28 by C. Duval, G. W. Gibbons, P. A. Horvathy · 7 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc #hep-th #math-ph #math.MP

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/31/9/092001

10 pages, no figure. Fast Track COmmunication, to appear in Class. Quant. Grav

arxiv created 2014/04/03 · arxiv updated 2015/06/18

Abstract

The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is shown to be the conformal extension of Levy-Leblond's "Carroll" group. Further extension to the Newman-Unti (NU) group is also discussed in the Carroll framework.

Cited by

• Supersymmetric Twisted Carroll Theories
• Postcarrollian gravity
• Lectures on the Bondi--Metzner--Sachs group and related topics in infrared physics
• Null infinity as a Killing horizon
• A finite Carrollian critical point
• Interacting Galilean and Finite-Energy Carroll Fermions
• Extended-BMS Anomalies and Flat Space Holography

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• The conformal BMS group
• Relation between Symmetry Groups for Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
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• Representations of Extended Carroll Group
• Extended Conformal Symmetry