Cosmic branes and asymptotic structure

Autor: Marika Taylor, Federico Capone
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2019, Iss 10, Pp 1-52 (2019)
Journal of High Energy Physics
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2019)138
Popis: Superrotations of asymptotically flat spacetimes in four dimensions can be interpreted in terms of including cosmic strings within the phase space of allowed solutions. In this paper we explore the implications of the inclusion of cosmic branes on the asymptotic structure of vacuum spacetimes in dimension d > 4. We first show that only cosmic (d-3)-branes are Riemann flat in the neighbourhood of the brane, and therefore only branes of such dimension passing through the celestial sphere can respect asymptotic local flatness. We derive the asymptotically locally flat boundary conditions associated with including cosmic branes in the phase space of solutions. We find the asymptotic expansion of vacuum spacetimes in d=5 with such boundary conditions; the expansion is polyhomogenous, with logarithmic terms arising at subleading orders in the expansion. The asymptotically locally flat boundary conditions identified here are associated with an extended asymptotic symmetry group, which may be relevant to soft scattering theorems and memory effects.
52 pages; v2, minor additions, published version
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