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I think I know how this came about: Sachs in his 1962 paper refers to the work of Bondi–van der Burg-Metzner as the "Generalized Bondi
Metzner (GBM) group". Others then added Sachs name to the list, since Sachs was the one to give the first full exposition of the GBM group, drop the G for Generalized
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Although the title is "Bondi–Metzner–Sachs group", it is based on the 1982 work of "Bondi–van der Burg-Metzner–Sachs". Unfortunately, everyone seem to use the abbreviation of BMS group; no one uses the unwieldy but correct BvdBMS abbreviation. For example, Strominger uses the four names and then
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I'm inclined to go with the correct names, all four, along with the commonly used but incorrect abbreviation, like
Strominger did. Maybe the title can be like this: "Bondi–van der Burg-Metzner–Sachs (BMS) group" with appropriate redirects.
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Or we can leave it unchanged, but I think van der Burg deserves some acknowledgement. In the article as it is now, I tried to finesse this by inserting a heading "1962 work of Bondi–van der Burg-Metzner–Sachs".
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and ended up with BMS. Regardless of the history, the question remains as to what is the best title for this article.
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the three letter abbreviation, i.e., Bondi–van der Burg-Metzner–Sachs (BMS), and uses BMS thereafter.
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