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arxiv: 1402.5894 · v2 · pith:RQYCUYBBnew · submitted 2014-02-24 · 🌀 gr-qc · hep-th· math-ph· math.MP

Conformal Carroll groups and BMS symmetry

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The Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group is shown to be the conformal extension of Levy-Leblond's "Carroll" group. Further extension to the Newman-Unti (NU) group is also discussed in the Carroll framework.

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