Effective gauge group of pure loop quantum gravity is SO(3): new estimate of the Immirzi parameter

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.04.028MaRDI QIDQ454100zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chung-Hsien Chou, Chopin Soo, Hoi-Lai Yu, Yi Ling

Publication date 30 September 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0511084

zbMATH Keywords

effective gauge grouppure four-dimensional loop quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

Abstract: We argue that the effective gauge group for {it pure} four-dimensional loop quantum gravity(LQG) is SO(3) (or $SO(3,C)$) instead of SU(2) (or $SL(2,C)$). As a result, links with half-integer spins in spin network states are not realized for {it pure} LQG, implying a modification of the spectra of area and volume operators. Our observations imply a new value of $gammaapprox0.170$ for the Immirzi parameter which is obtained from matching the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy to the number of states from LQG calculations. Moreover, even if the dominant contribution to the entropy is not assumed to come from configurations with the minimum spins, the results of both pure LQG and the supersymmetric extension of LQG can be made compatible when only integer spins are realized for the former, while the latter also contains half-integer spins, together with an Immirzi parameter for the supersymmetric case which is twice the value of the SO(3) theory. We also verify that the $-1/2$ coefficient of logarithmic correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula is robust, independent of whether only integer, or also half-integer spins, are realized.

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