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Rigorous steps towards holography in asymptotically flat spacetimes

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Scalar QFT on the boundary $\Im^+$ at null infinity of a general asymptotically flat 4D spacetime is constructed using the algebraic approach based on Weyl algebra associated to a BMS-invariant symplectic form. The constructed theory is invariant under a suitable unitary representation of the BMS group with manifest meaning when the fields are interpreted as suitable extensions to $\Im^+$ of massless minimally coupled fields propagating in the bulk. The analysis of the found unitary BMS representation proves that such a field on $\Im^+$ coincides with the natural wave function constructed out of the unitary BMS irreducible representation induced from the little group $\Delta$, the semidirect product between SO(2) and the two dimensional translational group. The result proposes a natural criterion to solve the long standing problem of the topology of BMS group. Indeed the found natural correspondence of quantum field theories holds only if the BMS group is equipped with the nuclear topology rejecting instead the Hilbert one. Eventually some theorems towards a holographic description on $\Im^+$ of QFT in the bulk are established at level of $C^*$ algebras of fields for strongly asymptotically predictable spacetimes. It is proved that preservation of a certain symplectic form implies the existence of an injective $*$-homomorphism from the Weyl algebra of fields of the bulk into that associated with the boundary $\Im^+$. Those results are, in particular, applied to 4D Minkowski spacetime where a nice interplay between Poincar\'e invariance in the bulk and BMS invariance on the boundary at $\Im^+$ is established at level of QFT. It arises that the $*$-homomorphism admits unitary implementation and Minkowski vacuum is mapped into the BMS invariant vacuum on $\Im^+$.

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hep-th · 2026-04-24 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

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Worldsheet Formalism for Decoupling Limits in String Theory

hep-th · 2023-11-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

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Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography

hep-th · 2022-02-09 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A 3d sourced conformal Carrollian field theory is proposed to holographically capture 4d flat gravity kinematics, with Ward identities matching 2d celestial CFT after relating operators.

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  • Carrollian quantum states and flat space holography hep-th · 2026-04-24 · unverdicted · none · ref 29

    Carrollian QFTs from scalar limits admit regular invariant vacua and KMS states only in the massive electric sector; a factorizing quasifree state is constructed for flat-space holography isolating nonseparable zero modes.

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    Scalar, vector, and tensor spherical harmonics on dS3 are constructed with explicit antipodal relationships between past and future asymptotic data, even with sources, plus decomposition theorems for tensors obeying inhomogeneous wave equations.

  • Worldsheet Formalism for Decoupling Limits in String Theory hep-th · 2023-11-17 · unverdicted · none · ref 106 · internal anchor

    Develops worldsheet sigma model for fundamental strings in critical type IIA limit showing nodal singularities and derives T-duality web unifying decoupling limits including ambitwistor and Carrollian strings.

  • Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography hep-th · 2022-02-09 · unverdicted · none · ref 18 · internal anchor

    A 3d sourced conformal Carrollian field theory is proposed to holographically capture 4d flat gravity kinematics, with Ward identities matching 2d celestial CFT after relating operators.

  • Lectures on the Bondi--Metzner--Sachs group and related topics in infrared physics gr-qc · 2025-04-16 · unverdicted · none · ref 78 · internal anchor

    Lecture notes that build the BMS group from prerequisites to applications in soft theorems, memory effects, and new material on asymptotic conformal Killing horizons.