FUNCTORIAL ASPECTS OF THE SPACE OF GENERALIZED CONNECTIONS

DOI10.1142/S0217732305017767MaRDI QIDQ5706731zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors José M. Velhinho

Publication date 21 November 2005

Published in Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0411073

zbMATH Keywords

categorygeneralized connectionsLoop quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: We give a description of the category structure of the space of generalized connections, an extension of the space of connections that plays a central role in loop quantum gravity.

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