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Paper   IPM / P / 15379
School of Physics
  Title:   On Rigidity of 3d Asymptotic Symmetry Algebras
  Author(s): 
1.  A. Farmhand Parsa
2.  H.R. Safari
3.  M.M. Sheikh-Jabbari
  Status:   Published
  Journal: JHEP
  Vol.:  03
  Year:  2019
  Pages:   143
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We study rigidity and stability of infinite dimensional algebras which are not subject to the Hochschild-Serre factorization theorem. In particular, we consider algebras appearing as asymptotic symmetries of three dimensional spacetimes, the BMS3, u(1) Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras. We construct and classify the family of algebras which appear as deformations of BMS3, u(1) Kac-Moody and their central extensions by direct computations and also by cohomological analysis. The Virasoro algebra appears as a specific member in this family of rigid algebras; for this case stabilization procedure is inverse of the Inönü-Wigner contraction relating Virasoro to BMS3 algebra. We comment on the physical meaning of deformation and stabilization of these algebras and relevance of the family of rigid algebras we obtain.

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