CONSTRAINTS IN QUANTUM GEOMETRODYNAMICS

DOI10.1142/S0217751X04017008zbMATH Open1080.83517arXivgr-qc/0302044OpenAlexW2067718790MaRDI QIDQ3370247FDOQ3370247

Nathan D. George, Arkady Kheyfets, Adrian P. Gentle, Warner A. Miller

Publication date: 7 February 2006

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

Abstract: We compare different treatments of the constraints in canonical quantum gravity. The standard approach on the superspace of 3--geometries treats the constraints as the sole carriers of the dynamic content of the theory, thus rendering the traditional dynamical equations obsolete. Quantization of the constraints in both the Dirac and ADM square root Hamiltonian approaches leads to the well known problems of time evolution. These problems of time are of both an interpretational and technical nature. In contrast, the geometrodynamic quantization procedure on the superspace of the true dynamical variables separates the issues of quantization from the enforcement of the constraints. The resulting theory takes into account states that are off-shell with respect to the constraints, and thus avoids the problems of time. We develop, for the first time, the geometrodynamic quantization formalism in a general setting and show that it retains all essential features previously illustrated in the context of homogeneous cosmologies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0302044

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum gravitycanonical quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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