Length expectation values in quantum Regge calculus

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2004.02.041MaRDI QIDQ447143zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. M. Khatsymovsky

Publication date 9 September 2012

Published in Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0401053

zbMATH Keywords

quantum Regge calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: Regge calculus configuration superspace can be embedded into a more general superspace where the length of any edge is defined ambiguously depending on the 4-tetrahedron containing the edge. Moreover, the latter superspace can be extended further so that even edge lengths in each the 4-tetrahedron are not defined, only area tensors of the 2-faces in it are. We make use of our previous result concerning quantisation of the area tensor Regge calculus which gives finite expectation values for areas. Also our result is used showing that quantum measure in the Regge calculus can be uniquely fixed once we know quantum measure on (the space of the functionals on) the superspace of the theory with ambiguously defined edge lengths. We find that in this framework quantisation of the usual Regge calculus is defined up to a parameter. The theory may possess nonzero (of the order of Plank scale) or zero length expectation values depending on whether this parameter is larger or smaller than a certain value. Vanishing length expectation values means that the theory is becoming continuous, here {it dynamically} in the originally discrete framework.

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