3 papers
gr-qc2026
Thermodynamics of boosted Schwarzschild black holes
Glenn Barnich
The equilibrium thermodynamics of boosted Schwarzschild black holes is worked out in a concise way and shown to agree with expectations from relativistic thermodynamics.
hep-th2025
BV-BRST Noether theorem
Glenn Barnich, Laurent Baulieu, Marc Henneaux +1
The BRST Noether theorem, or ``Noether's 1.5 theorem'', asserts the triviality of the BRST Noether current. We provide two proofs of this theorem that are both valid without restri…
hep-th2025
Model spaces as constrained Hamiltonian systems: I. Application to
Glenn Barnich, Thomas Smoes
Motivated by group-theoretical questions that arise in the context of asymptotic symmetries in gravity, we study model spaces and their quantization from the viewpoint of constrain…