The space of connections as the arena for (quantum) gravity

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2011.104MaRDI QIDQ431392zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Steffen Gielen

Publication date 26 June 2012

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1111.2672

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zbMATH Keywords

semisimple Lie algebrascanonical quantum gravitygravitational connectioninfinite-dimensional manifolds

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Classical or axiomatic geometry and physics (51P05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Applications of global differential geometry to the sciences (53C80) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We review some properties of the space of connections as the natural arena for canonical (quantum) gravity, and compare to the case of the superspace of 3-metrics. We detail how a 1-parameter family of metrics on the space of connections arises from the canonical analysis for general relativity which has a natural interpretation in terms of invariant tensors on the algebra of the gauge group. We also review the description of canonical GR as a geodesic principle on the space of connections, and comment on the existence of a time variable which could be used in the interpretation of the quantum theory.

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