The dynamics of supertranslations and superrotations in 2+1 dimensions

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA9809zbMATH Open1382.83074arXiv1608.05088OpenAlexW2963332758MaRDI QIDQ4606559FDOQ4606559

Steven Carlip

Publication date: 8 March 2018

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

Abstract: Supertranslations, and at least in 2+1 dimensions superrotations, are asymptotic symmetries of the metric in asymptotically flat spacetimes. They are not, however, symmetries of the boundary term of the Einstein-Hilbert action, which therefore induces an action for the Goldstone-like fields that parametrize these symmetries. I show that in 2+1 dimensions, this action is closely related to a chiral Liouville action, as well as the "Schwarzian" action that appears in two-dimensional near-AdS physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05088

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zbMATH Keywords

Liouville theoryBMS symmetry\(2+1\) dimensionsSchwarzian actionboundary excitations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

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