Quantum deformation of quantum gravity

DOI10.1016/0550-3213(96)00259-3zbMATH Open0925.83019arXivgr-qc/9512020OpenAlexW3104679310MaRDI QIDQ1921031FDOQ1921031

Authors: Seth Major, Lee Smolin 

Publication date: 12 August 1996

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We describe a deformation of the observable algebra of quantum gravity in which the loop algebra is extended to framed loops. This allows an alternative nonperturbative quantization which is suitable for describing a phase of quantum gravity characterized by states which are normalizable in the measure of Chern-Simons theory. The deformation parameter, q, depends on the cosmological constant. The Mandelstam identities are extended to a set of relations which are governed by the Kauffman bracket so that the spin network basis is deformed to a basis of SU(2)q spin networks. Corrections to the actions of operators in non-perturbative quantum gravity may be readily computed using recoupling theory; the example of the area observable is treated here. Finally, eigenstates of the q-deformed Wilson loops are constructed, which may make possible the construction of a q-deformed connection representation through an inverse transform.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9512020

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zbMATH Keywords

Kauffman bracketloop algebraChern Simons theory measurenonperturbative operatorsq deformed Wilson loop eigenstatesquantum gravity phase

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum groups and related algebraic methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R50) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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