nLab Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group

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Idea

The Bondi-Metzner-Sach group (BMS group) is the group of asymptotic symmetries of asymptotically flat spacetimes at lightlike infinity.

References

Named after:

Lecture notes:

  • Níckolas de Aguiar Alves: Lectures on the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group and related topics in infrared physics [arXiv:2504.12521]

In relation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation:

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