Polymer quantization and symmetries

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/7/075010zbMATH Open1266.83079arXiv1211.0823OpenAlexW2032309498MaRDI QIDQ4920199FDOQ4920199

Nirmalya Kajuri, Ghanashyam Date

Publication date: 16 May 2013

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

Abstract: Polymer quantization was discovered during the construction of Loop Quantum Cosmology. For the simplest quantum theory of one degree of freedom, the implications for dynamics were studied for the harmonic oscillator as well as some other potentials. For more degrees of freedom, the possibility of continuous, kinematic symmetries arises. While these are realised on the Hilbert space of polymer quantum mechanics, their infinitesimal versions are not supported. For an invariant Hamiltonian, these symmetry realizations imply infinite degeneracy suggesting that the symmetry should be spontaneously or explicitly broken. The estimation of symmetry violations in some cases have been analysed before. Here we explore the alternative of shifting the arena to the distributional states. We discuss both the polymer quantum mechanics case as well as polymer quantized scalar field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0823

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zbMATH Keywords

scalar fieldloop quantum cosmologypolymer quantizationinvariant Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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