Loop representations for 2+1 gravity on a torus

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/10/12/020zbMATH Open0789.53042arXivgr-qc/9303019OpenAlexW3106442146WikidataQ62398240 ScholiaQ62398240MaRDI QIDQ4280296FDOQ4280296

Donald Marolf

Publication date: 23 March 1994

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

Abstract: We study the loop representation of the quantum theory for 2+1 dimensional general relativity on a manifold, $M={calT}^{2}imescalR$, where ${calT}^2$ is the torus, and compare it with the connection representation for this system. In particular, we look at the loop transform in the part of the phase space where the holonomies are boosts and study its kernel. This kernel is dense in the connection representation and the transform is not continuous with respect to the natural topologies, even in its domain of definition. Nonetheless, loop representations isomorphic to the connection representation corresponding to this part of the phase space can still be constructed if due care is taken. We present this construction but note that certain ambiguities remain; in particular, functions of loops cannot be uniquely associated with functions of connections.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9303019

zbMATH Keywords

connection representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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