Near horizon soft hair

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Grumiller, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technische Universitat Vienna, Austria

Asymptotic symmetries have been crucial in understanding the holographic principle from a gravity perspective since they coincide with the global symmetries of the dual quantum field theory. A few years ago, we extended this notion to near horizon symmetries with some unexpected technical and conceptual insights, notably the discovery of soft Heisenberg hair. I summarize these developments and give an outlook.