Uniqueness of the representation in homogeneous isotropic LQC

DOI10.1007/S00220-017-2881-2MaRDI QIDQ2364581zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Engle, Maximilian Hanusch, Thomas Thiemann

Publication date 21 July 2017

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03548

zbMATH Keywords

GNS-Hilbert spacesholonomy-flux *-algebraloop quantum cosmology (LQC)uniqueness of the representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(C^*)-algebras and (W^*)-algebras in relation to group representations (22D25) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We show that the standard representation of homogeneous isotropic loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is the GNS-representation that corresponds to the unique state on the reduced quantum holonomy-flux ${}^{\ast }$-algebra that is invariant under residual diffeomorphisms $-$ both when the standard algebra is used as well as when one uses the extended algebra proposed by Fleischhack. More precisely, we find that in both situations the GNS-Hilbert spaces coincide, and that in the Fleischhack case the additional algebra elements are just mapped to zero operators. In order for the residual diffeomorphisms to have a well-defined action on the quantum algebra, we have let them act on the fiducial cell as well as on the dynamical variables, thereby recovering covariance. Consistency with Ashtekar and Campiglia in the Bianchi I case is also shown.

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