Existence of spinorial states in pure loop quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/16/10/326MaRDI QIDQ4935688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matthias Arnsdorf, Raquel S. Garcia

Publication date 30 March 2000

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9812006

zbMATH Keywords

Ashtekar formalismgravitational quantum statesloop quantum gravityspatial regions of nontrivial topology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on low-dimensional manifolds (57M50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We demonstrate the existence of spinorial states in a theory of canonical quantum gravity without matter. This should be regarded as evidence towards the conjecture that bound states with particle properties appear in association with spatial regions of non-trivial topology. In asymptotically trivial general relativity the momentum constraint generates only a subgroup of the spatial diffeomorphisms. The remaining diffeomorphisms give rise to the mapping class group, which acts as a symmetry group on the phase space. This action induces a unitary representation on the loop state space of the Ashtekar formalism. Certain elements of the diffeomorphism group can be regarded as asymptotic rotations of space relative to its surroundings. We construct states that transform non-trivially under a $2pi$-rotation: gravitational quantum states with fractional spin.

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