Free vacuum for loop quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/22/16/010MaRDI QIDQ5693557zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Conrady

Publication date 26 September 2005

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0409036

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravitysemiclassical statesweave-like states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We linearize extended ADM-gravity around the flat torus, and use the associated Fock vacuum to construct a state that could play the role of a free vacuum in loop quantum gravity. The state we obtain is an element of the gauge-invariant kinematic Hilbert space and restricted to a cutoff graph, as a natural consequence of the momentum cutoff of the original Fock state. It has the form of a Gaussian superposition of spin networks. We show that the peak of the Gaussian lies at weave-like states and derive a relation between the coloring of the weaves and the cutoff scale. Our analysis indicates that the peak weaves become independent of the cutoff length when the latter is much smaller than the Planck length. By the same method, we also construct multiple-graviton states. We discuss the possible use of these states for deriving a perturbation series in loop quantum gravity.

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