In 4D Maxwell theory, standard Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions render large gauge transformations and edge mode shifts as gauge redundancies, while modified conditions make them physical symmetries generated by topological surface operators, with new electromagnetic dual boundary conditions co
Asymptotic charges as detectors and the memory effect in massive QED and perturbative quantum gravity
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It has been shown that there are an infinite set of asymptotic symmetries in quantum gravity and QED, and this has been extended to dressed states in some cases. Here we rederive these statements in terms of detectors in order to clarify, confirm, and generalize these results to include external hard gravitons. Using detectors and including the full t dependence in Faddeev-Kulish dressings allows us to correct discrepancies in the literature and make new statements. We show that Faddeev-Kulish dressings correctly encode the memory effect in the 'in' and 'out' scattering Fock spaces. We find a physical contribution to the memory eigenvalues arising from the dressings in both cases.
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Symmetry uniquely fixes finite-time Faddeev-Kulish dressings in QED and gravity so they reproduce classical memory, allowing recovery of first-order and higher-order gravitational memory in perturbative calculations.
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Revisiting boundary electromagnetic duality and edge modes
In 4D Maxwell theory, standard Neumann/Dirichlet boundary conditions render large gauge transformations and edge mode shifts as gauge redundancies, while modified conditions make them physical symmetries generated by topological surface operators, with new electromagnetic dual boundary conditions co
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Finite-time memory detectors and fully constraining Faddeev-Kulish dressings in QED and gravity
Symmetry uniquely fixes finite-time Faddeev-Kulish dressings in QED and gravity so they reproduce classical memory, allowing recovery of first-order and higher-order gravitational memory in perturbative calculations.