A microscopic analogue of the BMS group
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Publication:6105695
DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2023)136arXiv2302.03111OpenAlexW4367301311MaRDI QIDQ6105695FDOQ6105695
Authors: Daniel Weiss 
Publication date: 9 June 2023
Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: We consider a microscopic analogue of the BMS analysis of asymptotic symmetries by analysing universal geometric structures on infinitesimal tangent light cones. Thereby, two natural microscopic symmetry groups arise: A non-trivially represented Lorentz group and a BMS-like group. The latter has a rich mathematical structure, since it contains the former as a non-canonical subgroup, next to infinitely many other Lorentz subgroups. None of those Lorentz subgroups appears to be intrinsically preferred, and hence, the microscopic BMS-like group constitutes a natural symmetry group for infinitesimal tangent light cones. We compare our investigation with the classical BMS analysis and show, that the microscopic BMS-like group is a gauge group for the bundle of null vectors. Motivated by the various applications of the original BMS group, our findings could have interesting implications: They identify a geometric structure that could be suitable for a bulk analysis of gravitational waves, they suggest a possible enlargement of the fundamental gauge group of gravity and they motivate the possibility of an interrelation between the UV structure of gauge theories, gravitational memory effects and BMS-like symmetries. Also, our results imply, that BMS-like groups arise not only as macroscopic, asymptotic symmetry groups in cosmology, but describe also a fundamental and seemingly unknown microscopic symmetry of pseudo-Riemannian geometry.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03111
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