Simplifying (super-)BMS algebras
Abstract
We show that the non-linear BMS5 symmetry algebra of asymptotically flat Einstein gravity in five dimensions, as well as the super-BMS4 superalgebra of asymptotically flat supergravity, can be redefined so as to take a direct sum structure. In the new presentation of the (super-)algebra, angle-dependent translations and angle-dependent supersymmetry transformations commute with the (super-)Poincaré generators. We also explain in detail the structure and charge-integrability of asymptotic symmetries with symmetry parameters depending on the fields (through the charges themselves), a topic relevant for nonlinear asymptotic symmetry algebras.
- Publication:
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Journal of High Energy Physics
- Pub Date:
- November 2023
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2309.07600
- Bibcode:
- 2023JHEP...11..108F
- Keywords:
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- Global Symmetries;
- Space-Time Symmetries;
- Classical Theories of Gravity;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 23 pages, no figures