Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics pp 95-99 | Cite as
Asymptotic Symmetries of 4D Space-Time Geometries
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BMS transformations are related to the emission of soft gravitons, which play the role of Goldstone bosons of spontaneously broken BMS symmetry. In this lecture, we will look more closely at the BMS group of asymptotic symmetries, in particular supertranslations.
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