Kinematical Hilbert spaces for fermionic and Higgs quantum field theories

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/6/006zbMATH Open0949.83027arXivgr-qc/9705021OpenAlexW2144258152MaRDI QIDQ4701455FDOQ4701455

Authors: Thomas Thiemann 

Publication date: 21 November 1999

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

Abstract: We extend the recently developed kinematical framework for diffeomorphism invariant theories of connections for compact gauge groups to the case of a diffeomorphism invariant quantum field theory which includes besides connections also fermions and Higgs fields. This framework is appropriate for coupling matter to quantum gravity. The presence of diffeomorphism invariance forces us to choose a representation which is a rather non-Fock-like one : the elementary excitations of the connection are along open or closed strings while those of the fermions or Higgs fields are at the end points of the string. Nevertheless we are able to promote the classical reality conditions to quantum adjointness relations which in turn uniquely fixes the gauge and diffeomorphism invariant probability measure that underlies the Hilbert space. Most of the fermionic part of this work is independent of the recent preprint by Baez and Krasnov and earlier work by Rovelli and Morales-Tec'otl because we use new canonical fermionic variables, so-called Grassman-valued half-densities, which enable us to to solve the difficult fermionic adjointness relations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9705021

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zbMATH Keywords

fermionscompact gauge groupsHiggs fieldsgauge-invariant statesdiffeomorphism-invariant quantum field theoryGrassmann-valued half-densitiespoint holonomies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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