Path integral representation for polymer quantized scalar fields

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15502048zbMATH Open1338.81274arXiv1406.7400OpenAlexW2270344366MaRDI QIDQ2809043FDOQ2809043

Authors: Nirmalya Kajuri 

Publication date: 27 May 2016

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: According to loop quantum gravity, matter fields must be quantized in a background independent manner. For scalar fields, such a background independent quantization is called polymer quantization and is inequivalent to the standard Schrodinger quantization. It is therefore important to obtain predictions from the polymer quantized scalar field theory and compare with the standard results. As a step towards this, we develop a path integral representation for the polymer quantized scalar field. We notice several crucial differences from the path integral for the schrodinger quantized scalar field. One important difference is the appearance of an extra summation at each point in the path integral for the polymer quantized theory. A second crucial difference is the loss of manifest Lorentz symmetry for a polymer quantized theory on Minkowski Space.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7400

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zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravityLorentz violationpath integralpolymer quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Model quantum field theories (81T10) Statistical mechanics of polymers (82D60) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Quantization in field theory; cohomological methods (81T70)

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