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most citedSupertranslations and Superrotations at the Black Hole Horizon

281 citations · 1.9k across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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34 papers

gr-qc2026

Taming the Aretakis instability: extremal black holes with multi-degenerate horizons

Shreyansh Agrawal, Panagiotis Charalambous, Laura Donnay +2

Stationary black hole geometries with non-degenerate Cauchy horizons are classically unstable due to mass inflation. At extremality, mass inflation is absent, but a different dynam…

hep-th2026

Infrared physics of QED and gravity from representation theory

Laura Donnay, Yannick Herfray

The infrared structure of QED and gravity is known to be governed by an infinite-dimensional symmetry group which extends the Poincaré group to include, respectively, large …

gr-qc2025★ 1 cited

Generalized Couch--Torrence inversions

Panagiotis Charalambous, Laura Donnay, Alexandru Lupsasca

The Laplace equation on Euclidean flat space admits a discrete radial inversion symmetry. In 1983, Couch and Torrence (CT) found -- surprisingly -- that the massless wave equation…

hep-th2025

Null infinity as an inverted extremal horizon: Matching an infinite set of conserved quantities for gravitational perturbations

Shreyansh Agrawal, Panagiotis Charalambous, Laura Donnay

Every spacetime that is asymptotically flat near null infinity can be conformally mapped via a spatial inversion onto the geometry around an extremal, non-rotating and non-expandin…

hep-th2025

MHV leaf amplitudes from parafermions

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet, Beniamino Valsesia

We give a dual CFT representation of MHV leaf amplitudes in the large and semiclassical limit in terms of non-compact parafermions and a single affine Kac-Moody current for $SO…

hep-th2024★ 4 cited

Celestial algebra in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory

Shreyansh Agrawal, Panagiotis Charalambous, Laura Donnay

From a study of the subleading structure of the asymptotic equations of motion in Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, we construct charges that are conserved up to quadratic order in non-r…

hep-th2024

Logarithmic doublets in CCFT

Agnese Bissi, Laura Donnay, Beniamino Valsesia

We investigate the presence of logarithmic CFT doublets in the soft sector of celestial CFT related with supertranslations. We show that the quantum operator associated with a $\lo…

hep-th2024

Carrollian representation from twistor space

Laura Donnay, Laurent Freidel, Yannick Herfray

We construct an explicit realization of the action of the loop algebra on fields at null infinity. This action is directly derived by Penrose transform of the geome…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Celestial holography: An asymptotic symmetry perspective

Laura Donnay

We review the role that infinite-dimensional symmetries arising at the boundary of asymptotically flat spacetimes play in the context of the celestial holography program. Once reca…

gr-qc2023★ 37 cited

Inferring fundamental spacetime symmetries with gravitational-wave memory: from LISA to the Einstein Telescope

Boris Goncharov, Laura Donnay, Jan Harms

We revisit gravitational wave (GW) memory as the key to measuring spacetime symmetries, extending beyond its traditional role in GW searches. In particular, we show how these symme…

hep-th2023★ 2 cited

Logarithmic soft graviton theorems from superrotation Ward identities

Shreyansh Agrawal, Laura Donnay, Kevin Nguyen +1

Soft graviton theorems receive one-loop contributions that are logarithmic in the energy of the soft graviton, and which are closely related to tails of gravitational waveforms. We…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

Celestial open strings at one-loop

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet, Hernán González +2

We study celestial amplitudes in string theory at one-loop. Celestial amplitudes describe scattering processes of boost eigenstates and relate to amplitudes in the more standard ba…

hep-th2022★ 9 cited

-Forms on the Celestial Sphere

Laura Donnay, Erfan Esmaeili, Carlo Heissenberg

We construct a basis of conformal primary wavefunctions (CPWs) for -form fields in any dimension, calculating their scalar products and exhibiting the change of basis between co…

hep-th2022★ 166 cited

Bridging Carrollian and Celestial Holography

Laura Donnay, Adrien Fiorucci, Yannick Herfray +1

Gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime constitutes the archetypal example of a gravitational system with leaky boundary conditions. Pursuing our analysis of [1], we argue th…

hep-th2022★ 63 cited

Loop-corrected subleading soft theorem and the celestial stress-tensor

Laura Donnay, Kevin Nguyen, Romain Ruzziconi

We demonstrate that the one-loop exact subleading soft graviton theorem automatically follows from conservation of the BMS charges, provided that the hard and soft fluxes separatel…

hep-th2022★ 48 cited

Goldilocks Modes and the Three Scattering Bases

Laura Donnay, Sabrina Pasterski, Andrea Puhm

We consider massless scattering from the point of view of the position, momentum, and celestial bases. In these three languages different properties of physical processes become ma…

hep-th2022★ 246 cited

Carrollian Perspective on Celestial Holography

Laura Donnay, Adrien Fiorucci, Yannick Herfray +1

We show that a sourced conformal Carrollian field theory has the right kinematic properties to holographically describe gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime. The exte…

hep-th2021★ 66 cited

BMS Flux Algebra in Celestial Holography

Laura Donnay, Romain Ruzziconi

Starting from gravity in asymptotically flat spacetime, the BMS momentum fluxes are constructed. These are non-local expressions of the solution space living on the celestial Riema…

hep-th2020★ 17 cited

Quantum BMS transformations in conformally flat space-times and holography

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet, Felipe Rosso

We define and study asymptotic Killing and conformal Killing vectors in -dimensional Minkowski, (A)dS, and . We construct t…

hep-th2020★ 16 cited

Horizon symmetries and hairy black holes in AdS

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet, Julio Oliva

We investigate whether supertranslation symmetry may appear in a scenario that involves black holes in AdS space. The framework we consider is massive 3D gravity, which admits a ri…

hep-th2020★ 136 cited

Asymptotic Symmetries and Celestial CFT

Laura Donnay, Sabrina Pasterski, Andrea Puhm

We provide a unified treatment of conformally soft Goldstone modes which arise when spin-one or spin-two conformal primary wavefunctions become pure gauge for certain integer value…

hep-th2019★ 27 cited

Cosmological horizons, Noether charges and entropy

Laura Donnay, Gaston Giribet

It has recently been shown that, in the vicinity of their event horizons, black holes exhibit an infinite-dimensional symmetry. This symmetry captures relevant physical information…

hep-th2019★ 208 cited

Carrollian Physics at the Black Hole Horizon

Laura Donnay, Charles Marteau

We show that the geometry of a black hole horizon can be described as a Carrollian geometry emerging from an ultra-relativistic limit where the near-horizon radial coordinate plays…

hep-th2018★ 167 cited

Conformally Soft Photons and Gravitons

Laura Donnay, Andrea Puhm, Andrew Strominger

The four-dimensional -matrix is reconsidered as a correlator on the celestial sphere at null infinity. Asymptotic particle states can be characterized by the point at which they…