05.04.2022 (Tuesday)

Charge and antipodal matching across spatial infinity

Regular Seminar Kevin Nguyen (KCL)

at:
14:00 QMUL
room Maths 503 and zoom
abstract:

Email m.godazgar@qmul.ac.uk for zoom link. Abstract: I will present the derivation of the antipodal matching relations used to demonstrate the equivalence between soft graviton theorems and BMS charge conservation across spatial infinity. To this end I will provide a precise map between Bondi data at null infinity and Beig-Schmidt data at spatial infinity in a context appropriate to the gravitational scattering problem and celestial holography. I will also demonstrate that, among various proposals of BMS charges at null infinity found in the literature, only a subset match the conserved charges at spatial infinity and are therefore preferred from that perspective.