Coherent state transforms for spaces of connections

DOI10.1006/JFAN.1996.0018zbMATH Open0837.22014arXivgr-qc/9412014OpenAlexW1998540006WikidataQ58879890 ScholiaQ58879890MaRDI QIDQ1908183FDOQ1908183

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

Publication date: 13 May 1996

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

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.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9412014

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)

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