General Relativity in Terms of Dirac Eigenvalues

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.78.3051MaRDI QIDQ4492434zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Giovanni Landi, Carlo Rovelli

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612034, http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v78/p3051

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative topology (46L85) Spectral problems; spectral geometry; scattering theory on manifolds (58J50) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05)

Abstract: The eigenvalues of the Dirac operator on a curved spacetime are diffeomorphism-invariant functions of the geometry. They form an infinite set of ``observables for general relativity. Recent work of Chamseddine and Connes suggests that they can be taken as variables for an invariant description of the gravitational field's dynamics. We compute the Poisson brackets of these eigenvalues and find them in terms of the energy-momentum of the eigenspinors and the propagator of the linearized Einstein equations. We show that the eigenspinors' energy-momentum is the Jacobian matrix of the change of coordinates from metric to eigenvalues. We also consider a minor modification of the spectral action, which eliminates the disturbing huge cosmological term and derive its equations of motion. These are satisfied if the energy momentum of the trans Planckian eigenspinors scale linearly with the eigenvalue; we argue that this requirement approximates the Einstein equations.

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