Quantizing Regge calculus

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/13/9/006zbMATH Open0860.53083arXivgr-qc/9512040OpenAlexW3104879543MaRDI QIDQ4894738FDOQ4894738

Authors: G. Immirzi 

Publication date: 7 October 1996

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

Abstract: A discretized version of canonical gravity in (3+1)-d introduced in a previous paper is further developed, introducing the Liouville form and the Poisson brackets, and studying them in detail in an explicit parametrization that shows the nature of the variables when the second class constraints are imposed. It is then shown that, even leaving aside the difficult question of imposing the first class constraints on the states, it is impossible to quantize the model directly, using complex variables and leaving the second class constraints to fix the metric of the quantum Hilbert, because one cannot find a metric which makes the area variables hermitean.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9512040

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zbMATH Keywords

constraintsPoisson bracketsLiouville formdiscretizing canonical gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Lattice gravity, Regge calculus and other discrete methods in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C27)

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