Quantum spin dynamics (QSD): VI. Quantum Poincaré algebra and a quantum positivity of energy theorem for canonical quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/6/005zbMATH Open0961.83020arXivgr-qc/9705020OpenAlexW2019648331MaRDI QIDQ4701447FDOQ4701447

Authors: Thomas Thiemann 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: We quantize the generators of the little subgroup of the asymptotic Poincar'e group of Lorentzian four-dimensional canonical quantum gravity in the continuum. In particular, the resulting ADM energy operator is densely defined on an appropriate Hilbert space, symmetric and essentially self-adjoint. Moreover, we prove a quantum analogue of the classical positivity of energy theorem due to Schoen and Yau. The proof uses a certain technical restriction on the space of states at spatial infinity which is suggested to us given the asymptotically flat structure available. The theorem demonstrates that several of the speculations regarding the stability of the theory, recently spelled out by Smolin, are false once a quantum version of the pre-assumptions underlying the classical positivity of energy theorem is imposed in the quantum theory as well. The quantum symmetry algebra corresponding to the generators of the little group faithfully represents the classical algebra.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9705020

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zbMATH Keywords

canonical quantum gravitypositive energy theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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