Further results on geometric operators in quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/7/010MaRDI QIDQ4348759zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Renate Loll

Publication date 7 August 1997

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612068

zbMATH Keywords

volumeareaquantum gravitylengthgeometric operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: We investigate some properties of geometric operators in canonical quantum gravity in the connection approach `a la Ashtekar, which are associated with volume, area and length of spatial regions. We motivate the construction of analogous discretized lattice quantities, compute various quantum commutators of the type [area,volume], [area,length] and [volume,length], and find they are generally non-vanishing. Although our calculations are performed mostly within a lattice-regularized approach, some are -- for special, fixed spin-network configurations -- identical with corresponding continuum computations. Comparison with the structure of the discretized theory leads us to conclude that anomalous commutators may be a general feature of operators constructed along similar lines within a continuum loop representation of quantum general relativity. -- The validity of the lattice approach remains unaffected.

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