Flat from anti de Sitter - a Carrollian perspective

In recent years, the theme of asymptotically flat spacetimes has come back to the fore, fueled by the discovery of gravitational waves and the growing interest in what flat holography could be. In this quest, the standard tools pertaining to asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes have been insufficiently exploited. I will show how Ricci-flat spacetimes are generally reached as a limit of Einstein geometries and how they are in fact constructed by means of data defined on the conformal Carrollian boundary that is null infinity. These data, infinite in number, are obtained as the coefficients of the Laurent expansion of the energy-momentum tensor in powers of the cosmological constant. This approach puts this tensor back at the heart of the analysis, and at the same time reveals the versatile role of the boundary Cotton tensor. Both appear in the infinite hierarchy of flux-balance equations governing the gravitational dynamics.