The BMS algebra and black hole information Han van der Ven1 supervised by Stefan Vandoren2, Johan van de Leur3 July 12, 2016 1Graduate student, Utrecht University,
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[email protected] Abstract As a means of working towards solving the information paradox, we discuss conformal diagrams of evaporating black holes. We generalize the Schwarzschild solution to the asymptotically flat Bondi-metric and give a derivation of its asymptotic symmetry algebra, the BMS algebra. We discuss the interpretation as a charge algebra of zero-energy currents. Finally, we establish the centrally extended BMS-algebra as the semi-simple product of the Virasoro algebra acting on a representation. Contents 1 Introduction 4 1.1 Introduction . .4 1.1.1 Black hole information . .4 1.1.2 Lumpy black holes . .4 1.1.3 Asymptotic Symmetries . .5 2 Black holes and evaporation 7 2.1 Black hole evaporation . .7 2.1.1 Evaporation . .7 2.2 Conformal diagrams . .8 2.2.1 Time direction . 11 3 Introduction to asymptotic symmetry 12 3.1 Asymptotic Symmetries of the plane . 12 3.2 The BMS group . 14 3.2.1 BMS in three dimensions . 14 3.2.2 The BMS algebra in three dimensions . 15 3.2.3 BMS in higher dimensions . 17 3.3 Spherical Metrics and Conformal Killing vectors . 17 3.3.1 Riemann sphere . 17 3.3.2 Conformal transformations . 18 3.4 Local vs Global transformations . 19 3.4.1 Global transformations: Lorentz group .