On the structure and applications of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group

DOI10.1142/S0219887818300027zbMATH Open1387.83017arXiv1709.05134OpenAlexW2754422714WikidataQ57514498 ScholiaQ57514498MaRDI QIDQ4602865FDOQ4602865

Authors: Francesco Alessio, Giampiero Esposito 

Publication date: 7 February 2018

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work is a pedagogical review dedicated to a modern description of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group. The curved space-times that will be taken into account are the ones that suitably approach, at infinity, Minkowski space-time. In particular we will focus on asymptotically flat space-times. In this work the concept of asymptotic symmetry group of those space-times will be studied. In the first two sections we derive the asymptotic group following the classical approach which was basically developed by Bondi, van den Burg, Metzner and Sachs. This is essentially the group of transformations between coordinate systems of a certain type in asymptotically flat space-times. In the third section the conformal method and the notion of asymptotic simplicity are introduced, following mainly the works of Penrose. This section prepares us for another derivation of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group which will involve the conformal structure, and is thus more geometrical and fundamental. In the subsequent sections we discuss the properties of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group, e.g. its algebra and the possibility to obtain as its subgroup the Poincar'e group, as we may expect. The paper ends with a review of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs invariance properties of classical gravitational scattering discovered by Strominger, that are finding application to black hole physics and quantum gravity in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05134

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesgravitational radiationasymptotic symmetryconformal infinitygravitational scatteringasymptotically flat space-timeBondi-Metzner-Sachs groupnews functionChristodoulou-Klainerman space-time

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Black holes (83C57) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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