Boundary Energy-Momentum Tensors for Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
Boundary Energy-Momentum Tensors for Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes
Jelle Hartong, Emil Have, Vijay Nenmeli, Gerben Oling
AbstractWe consider 3D and 4D asymptotically flat spacetimes near future null infinity endowed with the most general allowed Carroll geometry. We define a boundary energy-momentum tensor by varying the on-shell action with respect to the Carroll metric data. This requires adding counterterms to the Einstein-Hilbert action. We show that, in 4D, the shear is on par with the Carroll metric data. Their combined response defines a boundary energy-momentum-news complex whose diffeomorphism Ward identity is equivalent to the Bondi mass and angular momentum loss equations. Weyl invariance leads to an identity for the trace of the energy-momentum tensor, and local Carroll boosts are anomalous in 3D and in 4D.