Asymptotic shear and the intrinsic conformal geometry of null-infinity
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DOI10.1063/5.0003616zbMATH Open1455.83011arXiv2001.01281OpenAlexW3099749173WikidataQ114103897 ScholiaQ114103897MaRDI QIDQ5140965FDOQ5140965
Authors: Yannick Herfray 
Publication date: 17 December 2020
Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In this article we propose a new geometrization of the radiative phase space of asymptotically flat space-times: we show that the geometry induced on null-infinity by the presence of gravitational waves can be understood to be a generalisation of the tractor calculus of conformal manifolds adapted to the case of degenerate conformal metrics. It follows that the whole formalism is, by construction, manifestly conformally invariant. We first show that a choice of asymptotic shear amounts to a choice of linear differential operator of order two on the bundle of scales of null-infinity. We refer to these operators as Poincar'e operators. We then show that Poincar'e operators are in one-to-one correspondence with a particular class of tractor connections which we call "null-normal" (they generalise the normal tractor connection of conformal geometry). The tractor curvature encodes the presence of gravitational waves and the non-uniqueness of flat null-normal tractor connections correspond to the "degeneracy of gravity vacua" that has been extensively discussed in the literature. This work thus brings back the investigation of the radiative phase space of gravity to the study of (Cartan) connections and associated bundles. This should allow, in particular, to proliferate invariants of the phase space.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01281
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