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Main Authors: Akhoury, Ratindranath, Schutz, Arielle, Garfinkle, David
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04245
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author Akhoury, Ratindranath
Schutz, Arielle
Garfinkle, David
author_facet Akhoury, Ratindranath
Schutz, Arielle
Garfinkle, David
contents We show that superrotations can be described using the geometric conformal completion method of Penrose. In particular, superrotation charges can be described and calculated using the linkage method of Geroch and Winicour. Whether superrotation charges are calculated using the coordinate based Bondi formalism or the geometric Penrose formalism, the fact that the superrotation blows up at a point makes the superrotation charge formally ill defined. Nonetheless, we show that it can be made well defined through a regularization procedure devised by Flanagan and Nichols.
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spellingShingle Superrotations are Linkages
Akhoury, Ratindranath
Schutz, Arielle
Garfinkle, David
High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
We show that superrotations can be described using the geometric conformal completion method of Penrose. In particular, superrotation charges can be described and calculated using the linkage method of Geroch and Winicour. Whether superrotation charges are calculated using the coordinate based Bondi formalism or the geometric Penrose formalism, the fact that the superrotation blows up at a point makes the superrotation charge formally ill defined. Nonetheless, we show that it can be made well defined through a regularization procedure devised by Flanagan and Nichols.
title Superrotations are Linkages
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04245