Embedding loop quantum cosmology without piecewise linearity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/8/085001MaRDI QIDQ4923868zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Engle

Publication date 27 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6210

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum cosmology (LQG)piecewise analytic path

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: An important goal is to understand better the relation between full loop quantum gravity (LQG) and the simplified, reduced theory known as loop quantum cosmology (LQC), {em directly at the quantum level}. Such a firmer understanding would increase confidence in the reduced theory as a tool for formulating predictions of the full theory, as well as permitting lessons from the reduced theory to guide further development in the full theory. The present paper constructs an embedding of the usual state space of LQC into that of standard LQG, that is, LQG based on extit{piecewise analytic paths}. The embedding is well-defined even prior to solving the diffeomorphism constraint, at no point is a graph fixed, and at no point is the piecewise linear category used. This motivates for the first time a definition of operators in LQC corresponding to holonomies along non-piecewise-linear paths, without changing the usual kinematics of LQC in any way. The new embedding intertwines all operators corresponding to such holonomies, and all elements in its image satisfy an operator equation which classically implies homogeneity and isotropy. The construction is made possible by a recent result proven by Fleischhack.

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