Linking topological quantum field theory and nonperturbative quantum gravity

DOI10.1063/1.531251MaRDI QIDQ4871948zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lee Smolin

Publication date 3 March 1997

Published in Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9505028

zbMATH Keywords

topological quantum field theoryBekenstein boundcanonical quantum gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Applications of global analysis to the sciences (58Z05)

Abstract: Quantum gravity is studied nonperturbatively in the case in which space has a boundary with finite area. A natural set of boundary conditions is studied in the Euclidean signature theory, in which the pullback of the curvature to the boundary is self-dual (with a cosmological constant). A Hilbert space which describes all the information accessible by measuring the metric and connection induced in the boundary is constructed and is found to be the direct sum of the state spaces of all $SU(2)$ Chern-Simon theories defined by all choices of punctures and representations on the spatial boundary $calS$. The integer level $k$ of Chern-Simons theory is found to be given by $k=6pi/G^{2}Lambda+alpha$, where $Lambda$ is the cosmological constant and $alpha$ is a $CP$ breaking phase. Using these results, expectation values of observables which are functions of fields on the boundary may be evaluated in closed form. The Beckenstein bound and 't Hooft-Susskind holographic hypothesis are confirmed, (in the limit of large area and small cosmological constant) in the sense that once the two metric of the boundary has been measured, the subspace of the physical state space that describes the further information that the observer on the boundary may obtain about the interior has finite dimension equal to the exponent of the area of the boundary, in Planck units, times a fixed constant. Finally,the construction of the state space for quantum gravity in a region from that of all Chern-Simon theories defined on its boundary confirms the categorical-theoretic ``ladder of dimensions picture" of Crane.

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