A phase space for gravitational radiation (Q1912579): Difference between revisions

The author gives a new definition of the phase for the radiative degrees of freedom of the gravitational field in general relativity. This space fibres over the space of final states, with fibres being the purely radiative degrees of freedom. The symplectic form is rigorously identified. The infrared sectors are shown to be the level surfaces of a moment map of an action of the quotient group Supertranslations/Translations. A similar result holds for electromagnetism in Minkowski spaces.