Real and complex connections for canonical gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/14/10/002zbMATH Open0887.53059arXivgr-qc/9612030OpenAlexW3124386867WikidataQ60326963 ScholiaQ60326963MaRDI QIDQ4378152FDOQ4378152

Authors: G. Immirzi 

Publication date: 25 May 1998

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

Abstract: Both real and complex connections have been used for canonical gravity: the complex connection has SL(2,C) as gauge group, while the real connection has SU(2) as gauge group. We show that there is an arbitrary parameter $$ which enters in the definition of the real connection, in the Poisson brackets, and therefore in the scale of the discrete spectra one finds for areas and volumes in the corresponding quantum theory. A value for $$ could be could be singled out in the quantum theory by the Hamiltonian constraint, or by the rotation to the complex Ashtekar connection.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9612030

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zbMATH Keywords

Poisson bracketscanonical quantum gravityAshtekar connectionreal and complex connections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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