BMS symmetries. Supertranslations and superrotations.

Abstract

We will study BMS symmetries as canonical symmetries of quantum field theories, and the relation with other realizations.

Advisors
Joaquim Gomis (UB) and Carles Batlle (UPC)
References

G. Longhi, M. Materassi, "A Canonical realization of the BMS algebra", J.Math.Phys. 40 (1999) 480-500, hep-th/9803128

A. Strominger, "Lectures on the Infrared Structure of Gravity and Gauge Theory", arXiv:1703.05448 [hep-th] (2017)

C. Batlle, D. Delmastro, J. Gomis, Non-Relativistic BMS algebra, Class. Quantum Grav. 34 (2017) 184002. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aa8388. arXiv:1705.03739 [hep-th]

C. Batlle, V. Campello, J. Gomis, Canonical realization of (2+1)-dimensional Bondi-Metzner-Sachs symmetry, Phys. Rev. D 96, 025004 (2017). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.025004. arXiv:1703.01833 [hep-th].