Dynamics for a 2-vertex quantum gravity model

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/27/23/235010MaRDI QIDQ3066747zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Enrique F. Borja, Jacobo Diaz-Polo, Iñaki Garay, Etera R. Livine

Publication date 12 January 2011

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.2451

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum cosmologyloop quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We use the recently introduced U(N) framework for loop quantum gravity to study the dynamics of spin network states on the simplest class of graphs: two vertices linked with an arbitrary number N of edges. Such graphs represent two regions, in and out, separated by a boundary surface. We study the algebraic structure of the Hilbert space of spin networks from the U(N) perspective. In particular, we describe the algebra of operators acting on that space and discuss their relation to the standard holonomy operator of loop quantum gravity. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to make the restriction to the isotropic/homogeneous sector of the model by imposing the invariance under a global U(N) symmetry. We then propose a U(N) invariant Hamiltonian operator and study the induced dynamics. Finally, we explore the analogies between this model and loop quantum cosmology and sketch some possible generalizations of it.

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