On the metric operator for quantum cylindrical waves

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/17/1/313zbMATH Open0960.83013arXivgr-qc/9910043OpenAlexW3102014603MaRDI QIDQ4935010FDOQ4935010

Authors: Madhavan Varadarajan 

Publication date: 3 April 2000

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

Abstract: Every (1 polarization) cylindrical wave solution of vacuum general relativity is completely determined by a corresponding axisymmetric solution to the free scalar wave equation on an auxilliary 2+1 dimensional flat spacetime. The physical metric at radius R is determined by the energy, $gamma(R)$, of the scalar field in a box (in the flat spacetime) of radius R. In a recent work, among other important results, Ashtekar and Pierri have introduced a strategy to study the quantum geometry in this system, through a regularized quantum counterpart of $gamma(R)$. We show that this regularized object is a densely defined symmetric operator, thereby correcting an error in their proof of this result. We argue that it admits a self adjoint extension and show that the operator, unlike its classical counterpart, is not positive.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9910043

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zbMATH Keywords

cylindrical wavesgauge-fixing procedure for gravity

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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