Asymptotic Charges at Null Infinity in Any Dimension

[en] We analyse the conservation laws associated with large gauge transformations of massless fields in Minkowski space. Our aim is to highlight the interplay between boundary conditions and finiteness of the asymptotically conserved charges in any space-time dimension, both even and odd, greater than or equal to three. After discussing non-linear Yang-Mills theory and revisiting linearised gravity, our investigation extends to cover the infrared behaviour of bosonic massless quanta of any spin.

Research center :

AGIF - Algèbre, Géométrie et Interactions fondamentales

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Physics

Author, co-author :

Campoleoni, Andrea ; Université de Mons > Faculté des Sciences > Physique théorique et mathématique

Francia, Dario

Heissenberg, Carlo

Language :

English

Title :

Asymptotic Charges at Null Infinity in Any Dimension

Publication date :

02 March 2018

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Universe

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2218-1997

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1-36

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S814 - Physique théorique et mathématique

Research institute :

R150 - Institut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Complexes

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