Phase space renormalization and finite BMS charges in six dimensions

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Abstract: We perform a complete and systematic analysis of the solution space of six-dimensional Einstein gravity. We show that a particular subclass of solutions -- those that are analytic near mathcalI+ -- admit a non-trivial action of the generalised Bondi-Metzner-van der Burg-Sachs (GBMS) group which contains emph{infinite-dimensional} supertranslations and superrotations. The latter consists of all smooth volume-preserving DiffimesWeyl transformations of the celestial S4. Using the covariant phase space formalism and a new technique which we develop in this paper (phase space renormalization), we are able to renormalize the symplectic potential using counterterms which are emph{local} and emph{covariant}. We then construct charges which faithfully represent the GBMS algebra and in doing so, settle a long-standing open question regarding the existence of GBMS symmetries in higher dimensional non-linear gravity. Finally, we show that the semi-classical Ward identities for the supertranslations and superrotations are precisely the leading and subleading soft-graviton theorems respectively.



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