Quantum geometry from phase space reduction

DOI10.1063/1.3257109MaRDI QIDQ3583756zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Florian Conrady, Laurent Freidel

Publication date 17 August 2010

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0351

zbMATH Keywords

geometrycoherent statesintegral equationsquantum gravitySU(2) theoryquantisation (quantum theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Coherent states (81R30) Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Geometric quantization (53D50)

Abstract: In this work we give an explicit isomorphism between the usual spin network basis and the direct quantization of the reduced phase space of tetrahedra. The main outcome is a formula that describes the space of SU(2) invariant states by an integral over coherent states satisfying the closure constraint exactly, or equivalently, as an integral over the space of classical tetrahedra. This provides an explicit realization of theorems by Guillemin--Sternberg and Hall that describe the commutation of quantization and reduction. In the final part of the paper, we use our result to express the FK spin foam model as an integral over classical tetrahedra and the asymptotics of the vertex amplitude is determined.

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