Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity

Abstract The relation between two branches of solutions (radiative and subradiative) of wave equations on Minkowski spacetime is investigated, for any integer spin, in flat Bondi coordinates where remarkable simplifications occur and allow for exact boundary-to-bulk formulae. Each branch carries a u...

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Main Authors: Xavier Bekaert, S. I. Aadharsh Raj
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Published: SpringerOpen 2024-10-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)255
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description Abstract The relation between two branches of solutions (radiative and subradiative) of wave equations on Minkowski spacetime is investigated, for any integer spin, in flat Bondi coordinates where remarkable simplifications occur and allow for exact boundary-to-bulk formulae. Each branch carries a unitary irreducible representation of the Poincaré group, though an exotic one for the subradiative sector. These two branches of solutions are related by an inversion and, together, span a single representation of the conformal group. While radiative modes are realised in the familiar holographic way (either as boundary data at null infinity or as bulk fields with radiative asymptotic behavior), the whole tower of subradiative modes forms an indecomposable representation of the usual Poincaré group, which can be encoded into a single boundary field living on an interior null cone. Lorentz transformations are realised in both cases as conformal transformations of the celestial sphere. The vector space of all subradiative modes carries a unitary representation of a group isomorphic to the Poincaré group, where bulk conformal boosts play the role of bulk translations.
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spelling doaj-art-acb8224a59714a59b46a9dccdf60a61d2024-12-08T12:12:18ZengSpringerOpenJournal of High Energy Physics1029-84792024-10-0120241013510.1007/JHEP10(2024)255Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinityXavier Bekaert0S. I. Aadharsh Raj1Institut Denis Poisson, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7013 du CNRS, Université de Tours, Université d’OrléansInstitut Denis Poisson, Unité Mixte de Recherche 7013 du CNRS, Université de Tours, Université d’OrléansAbstract The relation between two branches of solutions (radiative and subradiative) of wave equations on Minkowski spacetime is investigated, for any integer spin, in flat Bondi coordinates where remarkable simplifications occur and allow for exact boundary-to-bulk formulae. Each branch carries a unitary irreducible representation of the Poincaré group, though an exotic one for the subradiative sector. These two branches of solutions are related by an inversion and, together, span a single representation of the conformal group. While radiative modes are realised in the familiar holographic way (either as boundary data at null infinity or as bulk fields with radiative asymptotic behavior), the whole tower of subradiative modes forms an indecomposable representation of the usual Poincaré group, which can be encoded into a single boundary field living on an interior null cone. Lorentz transformations are realised in both cases as conformal transformations of the celestial sphere. The vector space of all subradiative modes carries a unitary representation of a group isomorphic to the Poincaré group, where bulk conformal boosts play the role of bulk translations.https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)255Higher Spin GravityHigher Spin SymmetryScale and Conformal SymmetriesSpace-Time Symmetries
spellingShingle Xavier Bekaert
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Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
Journal of High Energy Physics
Higher Spin Gravity
Higher Spin Symmetry
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
Space-Time Symmetries
title Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
title_full Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
title_fullStr Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
title_full_unstemmed Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
title_short Asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
title_sort asymptotic behaviour of massless fields and kinematic duality between interior null cones and null infinity
topic Higher Spin Gravity
Higher Spin Symmetry
Scale and Conformal Symmetries
Space-Time Symmetries
url https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2024)255
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