OUP accepted manuscript

Abstract

Abstract We develop a new approach to find asymptotic symmetries in general relativity as a modification of the Lie-algebra-based approach proposed in T. Tomitsuka et al. [Classical Quantum Gravity 38, 225007 (2021)]. Those authors proposed an algorithmic protocol to investigate asymptotic symmetries. In particular, their guiding principle helps us to find a non-vanishing charge that generates an infinitesimal diffeomorphism. However, in order to check the integrability condition for the charges, it is necessary to solve differential equations to identify the integral curve of vector fields, which is usually quite hard. In this paper, we provide a sufficient condition of the integrability condition that can be checked without solving any differential equations, avoiding the difficulties in the approach in the above reference. As a demonstration, we investigate the asymptotic symmetries on a Killing horizon and find a new class of asymptotic symmetries. In 4D spacetimes with a spherical Killing horizon, we show that the algebra of the corresponding charges is a central extension of the algebra of vector fields.