A twistorial description of BMS symmetries at null infinity
arXiv:2111.00478 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.024018
Abstract
We describe a novel twistorial construction of the asymptotic BMS symmetries at null infinity for asymptotically flat spacetimes. We define BMS twistors as spinor solutions to some set of components of the usual spacetime twistor equation restricted to null infinity. The space of BMS twistors is infinite-dimensional. We show that given two BMS twistors their symmetric tensor product can be used to generate (complex) vector fields which are the infinitesimal BMS symmetries of null infinity. In this sense BMS twistors are "square roots" of BMS symmetries. We also show that these BMS twistor equations can be written a pair of covariant spinor-valued equations which are completely determined by the intrinsic universal structure of null infinity.
arXiv commentv2: minor corrections; published in PRD v1: 13 pages
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