Hamiltonian flows of Lorentzian polyhedra: Kapovich-Millson phase space and SU(1, 1) intertwiners

DOI10.1063/1.5048980MaRDI QIDQ4621256zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Etera R. Livine

Publication date 11 February 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06848

zbMATH Keywords

quasi-local observables and holographic duality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Linear algebraic groups over the reals, the complexes, the quaternions (20G20) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) Exceptional (super)algebras (17B25) Minkowski geometries in nonlinear incidence geometry (51B20)

Abstract: We describe the Lorentzian version of the Kapovitch-Millson phase space for polyhedra with $N$ faces. Starting with the Schwinger representation of the $mathfraksu(1,1)$ Lie algebra in terms of a pair of complex variables (or spinor), we define the phase space for a space-like vectors in the three-dimensional Minkowski space $mathbb{R}^{1,2}$. Considering $N$ copies of this space, quotiented by a closure constraint forcing the sum of those 3-vectors to vanish, we obtain the phase space for Lorentzian polyhedra with $N$ faces whose normal vectors are space-like, up to Lorentz transformations. We identify a generating set of $SU(1,1)$-invariant observables, whose flow by the Poisson bracket generate both area-preserving and area-changing deformations. We further show that the area-preserving observables form a $mathfrak{gl}_N(mathbbR)$ Lie algebra and that they generate a $G{L}_N(mathbbR)$ action on Lorentzian polyhedra at fixed total area. That action is cyclic and all Lorentzian polyhedra can be obtained from a totally squashed polyhedron (with only two non-trivial faces) by a $G{L}_N(mathbbR)$ transformation. All those features carry on to the quantum level, where quantum Lorentzian polyhedra are defined as $SU(1,1)$ intertwiners between unitary $SU(1,1)$-representations from the principal continuous series. Those $SU(1,1)$-intertwiners are the building blocks of spin network states in loop quantum gravity in 3+1 dimensions for time-like slicing and the present analysis applies to deformations of the quantum geometry of time-like boundaries in quantum gravity, which is especially relevant to the study of quasi-local observables and holographic duality.

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