Path integral representation for polymer quantized scalar fields

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15502048MaRDI QIDQ2809043zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nirmalya Kajuri

Publication date 27 May 2016

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravityLorentz violationpath integralpolymer quantization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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