Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group

In gravitational theory, the Bondi–Metzner–Sachs (BMS) group, or the Bondi–van der Burg–Metzner–Sachs group, is an asymptotic symmetry group of asymptotically flat, Lorentzian spacetimes at null (i.e., light-like) infinity. It was originally formulated in 1962 by Hermann Bondi, M. G. van der Burg, A. W. Metzner and Rainer K. Sachs in order to investigate the flow of energy at infinity due to propagating gravitational waves. Half a century later, this work of Bondi, van der Burg, Metzner, and Sachs is considered pioneering and seminal. In his autobiography, Bondi considered the 1962 work as his "best scientific work".^: 79