Superrotation charge and supertranslation hair on black holes

From MaRDI portal
Publication:683075

DOI10.1007/JHEP05(2017)161zbMATH Open1380.83143arXiv1611.09175OpenAlexW2558754323WikidataQ56459152 ScholiaQ56459152MaRDI QIDQ683075FDOQ683075

Andrew Strominger, Malcolm J. Perry, S. W. Hawking

Publication date: 5 February 2018

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

Abstract: It is shown that black hole spacetimes in classical Einstein gravity are characterized by, in addition to their ADM mass M, momentum vecP, angular momentum vecJ and boost charge vecK, an infinite head of supertranslation hair. The distinct black holes are distinguished by classical superrotation charges measured at infinity. Solutions with supertranslation hair are diffeomorphic to the Schwarzschild spacetime, but the diffeomorphisms are part of the BMS subgroup and act nontrivially on the physical phase space. It is shown that a black hole can be supertranslated by throwing in an asymmetric shock wave. A leading-order Bondi-gauge expression is derived for the linearized horizon supertranslation charge and shown to generate, via the Dirac bracket, supertranslations on the linearized phase space of gravitational excitations of the horizon. The considerations of this paper are largely classical augmented by comments on their implications for the quantum theory.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.09175




Recommendations




Cites Work


Cited In (only showing first 100 items - show all)





This page was built for publication: Superrotation charge and supertranslation hair on black holes

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q683075)