Published January 10, 2017 | Version v1
Journal article

Sub-subleading soft gravitons and large diffeomorphisms

  • 1. Instituto de Física, Facultad de Ciencias,Montevideo 11400 (Uruguay)
  • 2. Chennai Mathematical Institute,Siruseri 603103 (India)

Description

We present strong evidence that the sub-subleading soft theorem in semi-classical (tree level) gravity discovered by Cachazo and Strominger is equivalent to the conservation of asymptotic charges associated to a new class of vector fields not contained within the previous extensions of BMS algebra. Our analysis crucially relies on analyzing the hitherto established equivalences between soft theorems and Ward identities from a new perspective. In this process we naturally (re)discover a class of 'magnetic' charges at null infinity that are associated to the dual of the Weyl tensor.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2017)036; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/18562

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2017
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 36
ISSN
1029-8479

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Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP01(2017)036; ARXIV:1608.00685; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:18562
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)