Canonical quantum gravity in the Vassiliev invariants arena: I. Kinematical structure

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/16/309MaRDI QIDQ4523576zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Cayetano Di Bartolo, Rodolfo Gambini, Jorge Griego, Jorge Pullin

Publication date 14 January 2001

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9911009

zbMATH Keywords

Chern-Simons theoryquantum gravityspin networkVassiliev invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General low-dimensional topology (57M99) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We generalize the idea of Vassiliev invariants to the spin network context, with the aim of using these invariants as a kinematical arena for a canonical quantization of gravity. This paper presents a detailed construction of these invariants (both ambient and regular isotopic) requiring a significant elaboration based on the use of Chern-Simons perturbation theory which extends the work of Kauffman, Martin and Witten to four-valent networks. We show that this space of knot invariants has the crucial property -from the point of view of the quantization of gravity- of being loop differentiable in the sense of distributions. This allows the definition of diffeomorphism and Hamiltonian constraints. We show that the invariants are annihilated by the diffeomorphism constraint. In a companion paper we elaborate on the definition of a Hamiltonian constraint, discuss the constraint algebra, and show that the construction leads to a consistent theory of canonical quantum gravity.

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