ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE SPACE OF GENERALIZED CONNECTIONS

DOI10.1142/S0219887804000198zbMATH Open1070.53005arXivmath-ph/0402060OpenAlexW1967005995WikidataQ62501429 ScholiaQ62501429MaRDI QIDQ4669712FDOQ4669712

José M. Velhinho

Publication date: 15 April 2005

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We give a modern account of the construction and structure of the space of generalized connections, an extension of the space of connections that plays a central role in loop quantum gravity.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0402060

zbMATH Keywords

loop quantum gravityprojective techniquesgeneralized connectionsholonomy variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linear and affine connections (53B05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Spaces of embeddings and immersions (58D10) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

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• On pull-backs of the universal connection
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• Uniqueness of diffeomorphism invariant states on holonomy-flux algebras
• FUNCTORIAL ASPECTS OF THE SPACE OF GENERALIZED CONNECTIONS
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