Coherent state transforms for spaces of connections

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1996.0018MaRDI QIDQ1908183zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy Lewandowski, Donald Marolf, José Mourão, Thomas Thiemann

Publication date 13 May 1996

Published in Journal of Functional Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9412014, http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11308

zbMATH Keywords

Lie groupsquantum gravityquantum mechanicsholomorphic functionsHaar measureSegal-Bargmann transformHall transformquantum theoriescompact, connected Lie groupcoherent state transformheat-kind measurenon- Abelian gauge theoriesreal gauge fields

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: The Segal-Bargmann transform plays an important role in quantum theories of linear fields. Recently, Hall obtained a non-linear analog of this transform for quantum mechanics on Lie groups. Given a compact, connected Lie group $G$ with its normalized Haar measure $m{u}_H$, the Hall transform is an isometric isomorphism from $L^2(G,m{u}_H)$ to $calH(G^{Co})cap{L}^2(G^{Co},u)$, where $G^{Co}$ the complexification of $G$, $calH(G^{Co})$ the space of holomorphic functions on $G^{Co}$, and $u$ an appropriate heat-kernel measure on $G^{Co}$. We extend the Hall transform to the infinite dimensional context of non-Abelian gauge theories by replacing the Lie group $G$ by (a certain extension of) the space $calA/calG$ of connections modulo gauge transformations. The resulting ``coherent state transform provides a holomorphic representation of the holonomy $C^{s}tar$ algebra of real gauge fields. This representation is expected to play a key role in a non-perturbative, canonical approach to quantum gravity in 4-dimensions.

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