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Séminaire / Seminar GReCO

« Bondi–Metzner–Sachs (BMS) symmetries, balance laws and applications to gravitational waves »

Ali Seraj
Service Physique Théorique, Univ. Libre Bruxelles (Bruxelles, Belgique)

In this talk, I will give an extended introduction on asymptotic symmetries in gauge theories and gravity, and discuss their importance.
Then I focus on asymptotically flat spacetimes in 4 dimensions and introduce BMS symmetries. Finally I discuss how the conservation laws associated with BMS symmetries can be used to study gravitational waves.

lundi 9 mars 2020 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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