Linearized quantum gravity using the projection operator formalism

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/23/20/017MaRDI QIDQ3418916zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors W. R. Bomstad, J. R. Klauder

Publication date 5 February 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0601087

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: The theory of canonical linearized gravity is quantized using the Projection Operator formalism, in which no gauge or coordinate choices are made. The ADM Hamiltonian is used and the canonical variables and constraints are expanded around a flat background. As a result of the coordinate independence and linear truncation of the perturbation series, the constraint algebra surprisingly becomes partially second-class in both the classical and quantum pictures after all secondary constraints are considered. While new features emerge in the constraint structure, the end result is the same as previously reported: the (separable) physical Hilbert space still only depends on the transverse-traceless degrees of freedom.

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