Null infinity and unitary representation of the Poincarè group

DOI10.1007/JHEP01(2019)205zbMATH Open1409.83002arXiv1801.10171MaRDI QIDQ667307FDOQ667307

Authors: Shamik Banerjee 

Publication date: 12 March 2019

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Following Pasterski-Shao-Strominger we construct a new basis of states in the single-particle Hilbert space of massless particles as a linear combination of standard Wigner states. Under Lorentz transformation the new basis states transform in the Unitary Principal Continuous Series representation. These states are obtained if we consider the little group of a null momentum extit{direction} rather than a null momentum. The definition of the states in terms of the Wigner states makes it easier to study the action of space-time translation in this basis. We show by taking into account the effect of space-time translation that extit{the dynamics of massless particles described by these states takes place completely on the null-infinity of the Minkowski space}. We then second quantize the theory in this basis and obtain a unitary manifestly Poincare invariant (field) theory of free massless particles living on null-infinity. The null-infinity arises in this case purely group-theoretically without any reference to bulk space-time. Action of BMS on massless particles is natural in this picture. As a by-product we generalize the conformal primary wave-functions for massless particles in a way which makes the action of space-time translation simple. Using these wave-functions we write down a modified Mellin(-Fourier) transformation of the S-matrix elements. The resulting amplitude is Poincare covariant. Under Poincare transformation it transforms like products of primaries of inhomogeneous $SL(2,mathbbC)$ ($ISL(2,mathbbC)$) inserted at various points of null-infinity. $ISL(2,mathbbC)$ primaries are defined in the paper.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.10171

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryglobal symmetriesspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Finite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics and their representations (81R05) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Special relativity (83A05) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) (S)-matrix theory, etc. in quantum theory (81U20)

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