Extrapolating the massive fields to future timelike infinity
Abstract: It is well-known that future timelike infinity ($i+$) in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime is conformal to the unit three-dimensional hyperboloid ($H3$). We asymptotically expand massive fields with spin $0,1,2$ near $i+$ and extrapolate them onto this hyperboloid. These fields oscillate with a frequency equal to their mass and exhibit a universal asymptotic decay $\tau{-3/2}$. The fundamental fields are free and encode the outgoing scattering data. They are local operators defined on the boundary $H3$ with which we construct the Poincar\'e charges. The Poincar\'e algebra can be extended to $\text{MDiff}(H3)\ltimes C{\infty}(H3)$ using smeared operators associated with energy and angular momentum densities. For spinning fields, a spin operator must be included to close the algebra. The extended algebra shares the same form as the five-dimensional intertwined Carrollian diffeomorphism and reduces to the BMS algebra at $i+$ by restricting the choice of test functions and vectors.
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