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Autori principali: McNees, Robert, Zwikel, Céline
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author McNees, Robert
Zwikel, Céline
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Zwikel, Céline
contents We construct charges for four-dimensional spacetimes with a non-vanishing cosmological constant, including charges that are not conserved because of a leaky boundary and charges associated with corner terms in the symplectic current. The construction leads to manifestly finite charges for any choice of boundary conditions, and reveals new charges in partial Bondi gauge for an enlarged class of field configurations which are not fully on-shell, including a Weyl charge for conformal boundary conditions. In addition, we generalize the variational principle for AdS$_4$ gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions to a wedge of spacetime where the conformal boundary includes a corner. The boundary data is completely general, with no conditions restricting time dependence or the determinant of the metric. The Ward identities associated with boundary diffeomorphisms are shown to reproduce the evolution equations for the mass and angular momentum of fully on-shell field configurations.
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spellingShingle (Anti)-de Sitter with leaky boundaries and corners
McNees, Robert
Zwikel, Céline
High Energy Physics - Theory
We construct charges for four-dimensional spacetimes with a non-vanishing cosmological constant, including charges that are not conserved because of a leaky boundary and charges associated with corner terms in the symplectic current. The construction leads to manifestly finite charges for any choice of boundary conditions, and reveals new charges in partial Bondi gauge for an enlarged class of field configurations which are not fully on-shell, including a Weyl charge for conformal boundary conditions. In addition, we generalize the variational principle for AdS$_4$ gravity with Dirichlet boundary conditions to a wedge of spacetime where the conformal boundary includes a corner. The boundary data is completely general, with no conditions restricting time dependence or the determinant of the metric. The Ward identities associated with boundary diffeomorphisms are shown to reproduce the evolution equations for the mass and angular momentum of fully on-shell field configurations.
title (Anti)-de Sitter with leaky boundaries and corners
topic High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.03170