Invariant connections in loop quantum gravity

DOI10.1007/S00220-016-2592-0MaRDI QIDQ273188zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 21 April 2016

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5303

abelian \(C^\ast\)-algebra invariant connections loop quantum gravity quantum configuration space

(C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Given a group

G

and an abelian

C^{*}

-algebra

m a t h f r a k A

, the antihomomorphisms

T h e t a c o l o n G i g h t a r r o w m a t h r m A u t (m a t h f r a k A)

are in one-to-one with those left actions

P h i c o l o n G i m e s m a t h r m S p e c (m a t h f r a k A) i g h t a r r o w m a t h r m S p e c (m a t h f r a k A)

whose translation maps

P h i_{g}

are continuous; whereby continuities of

T h e t a

and

P h i

turn out to be equivalent if

m a t h f r a k A

is unital. In particular, a left action

p h i c o l o n G i m e s X i g h t a r r o w X

can be uniquely extended to the spectrum of a

C^{*}

-subalgebra

m a t h f r a k A

of the bounded functions on

X

if

p h i_{g}^{*} (m a t h f r a k A) s u b s e t e q m a t h f r a k A

holds for each

g i n G

. In the present paper, we apply this to the framework of loop quantum gravity. We show that, on the level of the configuration spaces, quantization and reduction in general do not commute, i.e., that the symmetry-reduced quantum configuration space is (strictly) larger than the quantized configuration space of the reduced classical theory. Here, the quantum-reduced space has the advantage to be completely characterized by a simple algebraic relation, whereby the quantized reduced classical space is usually hard to compute.

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