Three-dimensional canonical quantum gravity

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/12/11/002zbMATH Open0832.53068arXivgr-qc/9506069OpenAlexW2076095379MaRDI QIDQ4857751FDOQ4857751

Authors: H.-J. Matschull 

Publication date: 5 December 1995

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

Abstract: General aspects of vielbein representation, ADM formulation and canonical quantization of gravity are reviewed using pure gravity in three dimensions as a toy model. The classical part focusses on the role of observers in general relativity, which will later be identified with quantum observers. A precise definition of gauge symmetries and a classification of inequivalent solutions of Einstein's equations in dreibein formalism is given as well. In the quantum part the construction of the physical Hilbert space is carried out explicitly for a torus and cylinder type space manifold, which has not been done so far. Some conceptual problems of quantum gravity are discussed from the point of view of an observer sitting inside the universe.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9506069

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge symmetriesADM formalismcanonical quantization of gravitypure gravity in three dimensionsvielbein representation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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