Polymer and Fock representations for a scalar field

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/1/103zbMATH Open1025.83501arXivgr-qc/0211012OpenAlexW3098652086WikidataQ58879854 ScholiaQ58879854MaRDI QIDQ4797249FDOQ4797249

Authors: Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy Lewandowski, Hanno Sahlmann 

Publication date: 3 April 2003

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

Abstract: In loop quantum gravity, matter fields can have support only on the `polymer-like' excitations of quantum geometry, and their algebras of observables and Hilbert spaces of states can not refer to a classical, background geometry. Therefore, to adequately handle the matter sector, one has to address two issues already at the kinematic level. First, one has to construct the appropriate background independent operator algebras and Hilbert spaces. Second, to make contact with low energy physics, one has to relate this `polymer description' of matter fields to the standard Fock description in Minkowski space. While this task has been completed for gauge fields, important gaps remained in the treatment of scalar fields. The purpose of this letter is to fill these gaps.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0211012

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zbMATH Keywords

Minkowski space-timeloop quantum gravitypolymer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special relativity (83A05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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