25–29 May 2026
Murcia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

A unifying formalism for Carroll and Galilei limits

Not scheduled
5m
Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced (Murcia, Spain)

Universidad de Murcia, Campus de la Merced

Murcia, Spain

Paraninfo Campus de la Merced C. Santo Cristo 1 30001 Murcia Spain

Speaker

Elena Simon Felix (University of Murcia)

Description

We show that two basic properties of Galilei symmetries can be extended, against common belief, to Carroll symmetries when properly interpreted. The first property is the fact that one can take critical Galilei limits using the fact that the Galilei algebra can be centrally extended to a Bargmann algebra. We demonstrate that, although the Carroll algebra does not allow such a central extension, one can nevertheless formulate a critical Carroll limit provided one allows for Euclidean or spacelike branes. The second property of Galilei symmetries is the fact that one can obtain systems with Bargmann symmetry by performing a null reduction over a spatial dimension. We show that similarly critical Carroll systems can be obtained by performing a Carrollian version of the null reduction over a time direction.

We illustrate the different connections using particles

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