Invariants in quantum geometry

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(21)00013-6MaRDI QIDQ2664196zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrian P. C. Lim

Publication date 20 April 2021

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.05944

zbMATH Keywords

causalitylinking numberloopsquantum geometrysurface

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Plane and space curves (14H50) Relationships between algebraic curves and physics (14H81) Higher-dimensional knots and links (57K45) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: In quantum geometry, we consider a set of loops, a compact orientable surface and a solid compact spatial region, all inside $mathbbRimesmathbb{R}^{3}equivmathbb{R}^4$, which forms a triple. We want to define an ambient isotopic equivalence relation on such triples, so that we can obtain equivalence invariants. These invariants describe how these submanifolds are causally related to or `linked' with each other, and they are closely associated with the linking number between links in $mathbb{R}^3$. Because we distinguish the time-axis from spatial subspace in $mathbb{R}^4$, we see that these equivalence relations, will also imply causality.

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