Anomaly-free formulation of non-perturbative, four-dimensional Lorentzian quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/0370-2693(96)00532-1MaRDI QIDQ1914752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Thomas Thiemann

Publication date 25 June 1996

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9606088

zbMATH Keywords

renormalization4D Lorentzian vacuum quantum gravityanomaly free 4D quantum gravityEuclidean Wheeler DeWitt operatornonperturbative 4D quantum gravityquantum constraint operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: A Wheeler-Dewitt quantum constraint operator for four-dimensional, non-perturbative Lorentzian vacuum quantum gravity is defined in the continuum. The regulated Wheeler-DeWitt constraint operator is densely defined, does not require any renormalization and the final operator is anomaly-free and at least symmmetric. The technique introduced here can also be used to produce a couple of other completely well-defined regulated operators including but not exhausting a) the Euclidean Wheeler-DeWitt operator, b)the generator of the Wick rotation transform that maps solutions to the Euclidean Hamiltonian constraint to solutions to the Lorentzian Hamiltonian constraint, c) length operators, d) Hamiltonian operators of the matter sector and e) the generators of the asymptotic Poincar'e group including the quantum ADM energy.

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