A new realization of quantum geometry
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Linear and affine connections (53B05) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Topological field theories in quantum mechanics (81T45) Gravitational energy and conservation laws; groups of motions (83C40) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)
Abstract: We construct in this article a new realization of quantum geometry, which is obtained by quantizing the recently-introduced flux formulation of loop quantum gravity. In this framework, the vacuum is peaked on flat connections, and states are built upon it by creating local curvature excitations. The inner product induces a discrete topology on the gauge group, which turns out to be an essential ingredient for the construction of a continuum limit Hilbert space. This leads to a representation of the full holonomy-flux algebra of loop quantum gravity which is unitarily-inequivalent to the one based on the Ashtekar-Isham-Lewandowski vacuum. It therefore provides a new notion of quantum geometry. We discuss how the spectra of geometric operators, including holonomy and area operators, are affected by this new quantization. In particular, we find that the area operator is bounded, and that there are two different ways in which the Barbero-Immirzi parameter can be taken into account. The methods introduced in this work open up new possibilities for investigating further realizations of quantum geometry based on different vacua.
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