Publication:1269507

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1998.3283zbMATH Open0915.58019arXivq-alg/9708005OpenAlexW2021875329WikidataQ62443575 ScholiaQ62443575MaRDI QIDQ1269507FDOQ1269507

John Baez, Stephen Sawin

Publication date: 5 July 1999

Published in: Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We extend the theory of diffeomorphism-invariant spin network states from the real-analytic category to the smooth category. Suppose that G is a compact connected semisimple Lie group and P -> M is a smooth principal G-bundle. A `cylinder function' on the space of smooth connections on P is a continuous complex function of the holonomies along finitely many piecewise smoothly immersed curves in M. We construct diffeomorphism-invariant functionals on the space of cylinder functions from `spin networks': graphs in M with edges labeled by representations of G and vertices labeled by intertwining operators. Using the `group averaging' technique of Ashtekar, Marolf, Mourao and Thiemann, we equip the space spanned by these `diffeomorphism-invariant spin network states' with a natural inner product.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9708005

zbMATH Keywords

inner productconnectionsprincipal bundlescylinder functionsdiffeomorphism-invariant spin network states holonomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05) Applications of manifolds of mappings to the sciences (58D30) Moduli problems for differential geometric structures (58D27)

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• Simplicial Topological Coding and Homology of Spin Networks
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• On the spectrum of holonomy algebras
• ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE SPACE OF GENERALIZED CONNECTIONS
• Kinematical Foundations of Loop Quantum Cosmology

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