Feb 5 – 10, 2022
Thon Hotel Skeikampen
Europe/Copenhagen timezone

Carrollian and celestial spaces at infinity

Feb 6, 2022, 9:00 PM
20m
Thon Hotel Skeikampen

Thon Hotel Skeikampen

Hotellvegen 3 2652 Svingvoll NORWAY
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Speaker

Emil Have

Description

I will discuss how the geometry of the asymptotic infinities of 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is captured by homogeneous spaces of the Poincaré group. In addition to the blowups of spatial (Spi) and timelike (Ti) infinities a la Ashtekar-Hansen, which are (pseudo-)carrollian geometries, this construction naturally leads to a novel space Ni that fibers over scri and is equipped with a doubly-carrollian structure. All these spaces embed into a 6-dimensional pseudo-euclidean space of signature (-,-,+,+,+,+), which generalises a similar construction for Minkowski space by Penrose and Rindler. Finally, I will discuss how these geometries can be made dynamical via a gauging procedure.

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