Note on the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs Group

1966/05/01 by Ezra T. Newman, Roger Penrose · 29 citations
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paper · doi:10.1063/1.1931221

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Abstract

It is shown that, in space-times which are asymptotically flat, there are reasonable physical restrictions that allow one to impose coordinate conditions (in addition to the usual Bondi-type conditions)which restrict the allowed coordinate group to a subgroup of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group. This subgroup is isomorphic to the improper orthochronous inhomogeneous Lorentz group.

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