Flat spacetime vacuum in loop quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/16/006MaRDI QIDQ4832330zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors A. Miković

Publication date 4 January 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404021

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We construct a state in the loop quantum gravity theory with zero cosmological constant, which should correspond to the flat spacetime vacuum solution. This is done by defining the loop transform coefficients of a flat connection wavefunction in the holomorphic representation which satisfies all the constraints of quantum General Relativity and it is peaked around the flat space triads. The loop transform coefficients are defined as spin foam state sum invariants of the spin networks embedded in the spatial manifold for the SU(2) quantum group. We also obtain an expression for the vacuum wavefunction in the triad represntation, by defining the corresponding spin networks functional integrals as SU(2) quantum group state sums.

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