Quantum gravity vacuum and invariants of embedded spin networks

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/15/314zbMATH Open1108.83301arXivgr-qc/0301047OpenAlexW2127858497WikidataQ57602591 ScholiaQ57602591MaRDI QIDQ4461002FDOQ4461002

Authors: A. Miković 

Publication date: 29 March 2004

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

Abstract: We show that the path integral for the three-dimensional SU(2) BF theory with a Wilson loop or a spin network function inserted can be understood as the Rovelli-Smolin loop transform of a wavefunction in the Ashtekar connection representation, where the wavefunction satisfies the constraints of quantum general relativity with zero cosmological constant. This wavefunction is given as a product of the delta functions of the SU(2) field strength and therefore it can be naturally associated to a flat connection spacetime. The loop transform can be defined rigorously via the quantum SU(2) group, as a spin foam state sum model, so that one obtains invariants of spin networks embedded in a three-manifold. These invariants define a flat connection vacuum state in the q-deformed spin network basis. We then propose a modification of this construction in order to obtain a vacuum state corresponding to the flat metric spacetime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0301047

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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