20.04.2022 (Wednesday)

Possible kinematics for flat space holography

Regular Seminar Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill (University of Edinburgh)

at:
13:45 KCL
room Online
abstract:

I will discuss recent and ongoing work with Emil Have, Stefan Prohazka and Jakob Salzer on possible kinematics for flat space holography. I will discuss how a seemingly novel projective compactification of Minkowski spacetime reveals a rich asymptotic geometry homogeneous under the Poincare group and including the blow-ups at spatial and timelike infinities as well as a novel four-dimensional space intimately associated to null infinity. This allows for novel geometric descriptions of the Minkowski asymptotic geometries and gives us a glimpse of the asymptotic geometry of asymptotically flat spaces.