BMS invariance and the membrane paradigm

The Bondi-van der Burg-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is the asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat spacetime. It is infinite dimensional and entails an infinite number of conservation laws. According to the black hole membrane paradigm, null infinity (in asymptotically flat spacetime) and blac...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Penna, Robert
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: Springer/SISSA 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102175
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