A length operator for canonical quantum gravity

DOI10.1063/1.532445zbMath1001.83023arXivgr-qc/9606092OpenAlexW3102310903MaRDI QIDQ4260480

Thomas Thiemann

Publication date: 8 December 2002

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9606092

zbMATH Keywords

spectrummetric tensorself-adjoint extensionsweave states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70)

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