Real and complex asymptotic symmetries in quantum gravity, irreducible representations, polygons, polyhedra, and theA, D, Eseries

DOI10.1098/rsta.1992.0009zbMath0824.22020OpenAlexW2092423562MaRDI QIDQ4007129

Patrick J. McCarthy

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.1992.0009

zbMATH Keywords

symmetry groupsirreducible unitary representationsgeneral relativitycomplexificationasymptotically flat space-timesBondi-Metzner-Sachs group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30)

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