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Gravitational scattering at null infinity: asymptotics, BMS symmetries, angular momentum, and peeling violation

By Thibault Damour

Appears in collection : Korea-France Joint Workshop on String Theory

We present some results about the asymptotic structure of the gravitational field emitted during the gravitational scattering of two point masses. This problem has recently been investigated from several complementary angles: the Multipolar Post-Minkowskian formalism,
Effective-Field-Theory approaches, Soft theorems, Celestial Holography, and extension of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group of asymptotic symmetries to the five infinities of asymptotically flat spacetimes. The comparison between these approaches has raised interesting conceptual issues and has given new vistas on old problems (notably on the definition of angular momentum, and peeling violations).

Information about the video

  • Date of recording 18/09/2026
  • Date of publication 21/09/2026
  • Institution IHES
  • Language English
  • Audience Researchers
  • Format MP4

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