Akhoury Ratindranath, Choi Sangmin, Perry Malcolm J
Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics, Randall Laboratory of Physics, Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
CPHT, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau, France.
Phys Rev Lett. 2022 Nov 23;129(22):221603. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.221603.
We investigate the standard and dual Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) supertranslation generators on a black hole horizon and draw some conclusions about black hole physics. Recently, it has been shown that in addition to conventional BMS supertranslation symmetries, there exists an additional infinite set of magnetic asymptotic symmetries, dual BMS supertranslations, again parametrized by a function on the two-sphere. We show that the Dirac bracket between these generators exhibits an anomalous central term when one parameter function exhibits a singularity in the complex stereographical coordinates on the sphere. In order to preserve general coordinate invariance, we demonstrate that this central term can be removed by postulating a holographic gravitational Chern-Simons theory on the horizon. This indicates that for an anomaly-free theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a black hole, one should include a boundary theory on the horizon.