A combinatorial approach to diffeomorphism invariant quantum gauge theories

DOI10.1063/1.532159MaRDI QIDQ4378313zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors José A. Zapata

Publication date 27 July 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9703037

zbMATH Keywords

diffeomorphism invariant quantum gauge theorypiecewise linear graphquantum models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Abstract: Quantum gauge theory in the connection representation uses functions of holonomies as configuration observables. Physical observables (gauge and diffeomorphism invariant) are represented in the Hilbert space of physical states; physical states are gauge and diffeomorphism invariant distributions on the space of functions of the holonomies of the edges of a certain family of graphs. Then a family of graphs embedded in the space manifold (satisfying certain properties) induces a representation of the algebra of physical observables. We construct a quantum model from the set of piecewise linear graphs on a piecewise linear manifold, and another manifestly combinatorial model from graphs defined on a sequence of increasingly refined simplicial complexes. Even though the two models are different at the kinematical level, they provide unitarily equivalent representations of the algebra of physical observables in separable Hilbert spaces of physical states (their s-knot basis is countable). Hence, the combinatorial framework is compatible with the usual interpretation of quantum field theory.

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