From Euclidean to Lorentzian loop quantum gravity via a positive complexifier

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AAF2CDzbMATH Open1475.83042arXiv1808.00673OpenAlexW2886023155WikidataQ128891657 ScholiaQ128891657MaRDI QIDQ3383552FDOQ3383552

Authors: Madhavan Varadarajan 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a positive complexifier, differentiable almost everywhere on the classical phase space of real triads and $SU(2)$ connections, which generates a Wick Transform from Euclidean to Lorentzian gravity everywhere except on a phase space set of measure zero. This Wick transform assigns an equal role to the self dual and anti-self dual Ashtekar variables in quantum theory. We argue that the appropriate quantum arena for an analysis of the properties of the Wick rotation is the diffeomorphism invariant Hilbert space of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) rather than its kinematic Hilbert space. We examine issues related to the construction, in quantum theory, of the positive complexifier as a positive operator on this diffeomorphism invariant Hilbert space. Assuming the existence of such an operator, we explore the possibility of identifying physical states in Lorentzian LQG as Wick rotated images of physical states in the Euclidean theory. Our considerations derive from Thiemann's remarkable proposal to define Lorentzian LQG from Euclidean LQG via the implementation in quantum theory of a phase space `Wick rotation' which maps real Ashtekar-Barbero variables to Ashtekar's complex, self dual variables.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00673

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zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravityWick rotationLorentzian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Constructive quantum field theory (81T08)

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