On the relation between the connection and the loop representation of quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/1/009MaRDI QIDQ4332169zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Roberto De Pietri

Publication date 21 July 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9605064, http://cds.cern.ch/record/304081

zbMATH Keywords

binor calculusconnection representationloop representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-08) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Using Penrose binor calculus for $SU(2)$ ($SL(2,C)$) tensor expressions, a graphical method for the connection representation of Euclidean Quantum Gravity (real connection) is constructed. It is explicitly shown that: {it (i)} the recently proposed scalar product in the loop-representation coincide with the Ashtekar-Lewandoski cylindrical measure in the space of connections; {it (ii)} it is possible to establish a correspondence between the operators in the connection representation and those in the loop representation. The construction is based on embedded spin network, the Penrose graphical method of $SU(2)$ calculus, and the existence of a generalized measure on the space of connections modulo gauge transformations.

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