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# Current Algebra on the Conformal Boundary and the Variables of Quantum Gravity

@article{Banks2015CurrentAO,
title={Current Algebra on the Conformal Boundary and the Variables of Quantum Gravity},
author={Thomas Banks},
journal={arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory},
year={2015}
}
• T. Banks
• Published 3 November 2015
• Physics
• arXiv: High Energy Physics - Theory
I argue that scattering theory for massless particles in Minkowski space should be reformulated as a mapping between past and future representations of an algebra of densities on the conformal boundary. These densities are best thought of as living on the momentum space light cone dual to null infinity, which describes the simultaneous eigenstates of the BMS generators. The currents describe the flow of other quantum numbers through the holographic screen at infinity. They are operator valued…
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