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The constrained Hamiltonian analysis of geometric actions is worked out before applying the construction to the extended Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group in four dimensions. For any Hamiltonian associated with an extended BMS4 generator, this action provides a field theory in two plus one spacetime dimensions whose Poisson bracket algebra of Noether charges realizes the extended BMS4 Lie algebra. The Poisson structure of the model includes the classical version of the operator product expansions that have appeared in the context of celestial holography. Furthermore, the model reproduces the evolution equations of non-radiative asymptotically flat spacetimes at null infinity.
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Barnich, G., Nguyen, K. & Ruzziconi, R. Geometric action for extended Bondi-Metzner-Sachs group in four dimensions. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 154 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)154
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