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Mixed-helicity sector of celestial symmetries and the shadow transform

Thursday 10:30 UTC

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Waterloo, Canada
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1 h 7 min

Abstract

Combining opposite graviton helicities complicates the enlarged symmetry algebra at null infinity. This talk analyses higher-spin gravitational charges using covariant phase space. Restricting one helicity to a wedge sector yields a closed bracket structure in which the shadow transform is central, and produces a dual-mass extension of lower-spin BMS symmetries. A correspondence with celestial operator products then resolves soft-limit ordering ambiguities and computes products involving shadow-transformed soft gravitons.

Topics

graviton helicitiesenlarged symmetry algebranull infinityhigher-spin gravitational chargescovariant phase spacewedge sectorshadow transformdual-mass extensionBMS symmetriescelestial operator products