Barbero-Immirzi connections and how to build them

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2021.104276MaRDI QIDQ2040476zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Orizzonte, Lorenzo Fatibene

Publication date 14 July 2021

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.07725

zbMATH Keywords

Barbero-Immirzi connectionloop quantum gravityprincipal connections on bundlesstructure group reduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Correspondence, duality, holography (AdS/CFT, gauge/gravity, etc.) (81T35) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We introduce a covariant formulation of Barbero-Immirzi connections, which are used in Loop Quantum Gravity to describe gravity. We show that Barbero-Immirzi connections can be uniquely defined out of a given spin connection for any $(n+1)$-dimensional lorentzian manifold which is spin. A remarkable result is that the presence of a real Barbero-Immirzi parameter is a feature unique to the $4$-dimensional case.

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