Soft hair as a soft wig

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DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA8BE2zbMATH Open1380.83126arXiv1706.00436OpenAlexW2620975615MaRDI QIDQ4603086FDOQ4603086


Authors: Raphael Bousso, M. Porrati Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 19 February 2018

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider large gauge transformations of gravity and electromagnetism in D=4 asymptotically flat spacetime. Already at the classical level, we identify a canonical transformation that decouples the soft variables from the hard dynamics. We find that only the soft dynamics is constrained by BMS or large U(1) charge conservation. Physically this corresponds to the fact that sufficiently long-wavelength photons or gravitons that are added to the in-state will simply pass through the interaction region; they scatter trivially in their own sector. This implies in particular that the large gauge symmetries bear no relevance to the black hole information paradox. We also present the quantum version of soft decoupling. As a consistency check, we show that the apparent mixing of soft and hard modes in the original variables arises entirely from the long range field of the hard charges, which is fixed by gauge invariance and so contains no additional information.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00436




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