Isomonodromic quantization of dimensionally reduced gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00320-3MaRDI QIDQ1920746zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors D. Korotkin, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date 13 August 1996

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9605144, http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-5B2C-3

zbMATH Keywords

Killing vectorsKnizhnik Zamolodchikov equationsquantum gravitystring theoryWheeler DeWitt constraints

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We present a detailed account of the isomonodromic quantization of dimensionally reduced Einstein gravity with two commuting Killing vectors. This theory constitutes an integrable ``midi-superspace" version of quantum gravity with infinitely many interacting physical degrees of freedom. The canonical treatment is based on the complete separation of variables in the isomonodromic sectors of the model. The Wheeler-DeWitt and diffeomorphism constraints are thereby reduced to the Knizhnik-Zamolodchikov equations for $SL(2,R)$. The physical states are shown to live in a well defined Hilbert space and are manifestly invariant under the full diffeomorphism group. An infinite set of independent observables `a la Dirac exists both at the classical and the quantum level. Using the discrete unitary representations of $SL(2,R)$, we construct explicit quantum states. However, satisfying the additional constraints associated with the coset space $SL(2,R)/SO(2)$ requires solutions based on the principal series representations, which are not yet known. We briefly discuss the possible implications of our results for string theory.

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